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BEIJING: China’s first Mars rover, Zhurong, has driven down from its landing platform to the Martian surface, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced. Zhurong’s first successful drive made China the second country after the United States to land and operate a rover on Mars.. China’s Tianwen-1 mission, consisting of an orbiter, a lander and a rover, was launched on July 23,2020. The lander carrying the rover touched down in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a vast plai...

Chinese space programme was initiated in 1956, when the country’s first rocket research institution was founded. It launched its first rocket into space on 19 July 1964.

China drives Zhurong rover on Mars   Sun, May 23 2021 11:38:34 AM Beijing, May 23 (IANS): Chinas Mars rover has driven down from its landing platform to the surface of the Red planet after a week of its arrival there, the media reported. China landed a probe on a planet other than Earth for the first time on May 15. It has now become the second country, after the US, to operate a rover on the Red planet. The Zhurong robot is due to study the planets surface rocks and atmosphere. It will also ...

On May 15, China's Zhurong rover landed on Mars. The rover just left its landing pad and completed its first test drive on the Martian surface.

Chinese Mars rover gets down to work 2 Zhurong starts exploring surface of Red Planet as part of 3-month mission published : 22 May 2021 at 15:42 2 A picture released on Thursday by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) shows an image taken by the navigation camera of Chinas Zhurong rover on the surface of Mars, showing the rovers solar panels and antenna. (CNSA via AFP) China’s Mars rover drove from its landing platform and began...

Chinas first Mars rover, Zhurong, has driven down from its landing platform to the Martian surface, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on Saturday.

Chinas First Mars Rover Zhurong Steps Out to Explore Red Planet News18 2 hours ago © Provided by News18 Chinas First Mars Rover Zhurong Steps Out to Explore Red Planet China’s first Mars rover on Saturday drove down from its landing platform to the Martian surface to start exploring the surface of the red planet. The six-wheeled solar-powered rover named Zhurong, resembling a blue butterfly and with a mass of 240 kg, slowly trundled off a ramp on the lander to hit the red, sandy soil of ...

BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhua) -- China first Mars rover, Zhurong, drove down from its landing platform to the Martian surface Saturday, leaving the country first foo

China just became the second country to drive a rover on the surface of Mars China’s Zhurong rover left its landing platform and drove on the surface of Mars on Saturday, state media reported — making the country only the second after the US to land and operate a rover on the red planet. The six-wheel solar-powered rover, which weighs about 240 kilograms (529 pounds), touched down on Mars on May 15. Its mission is intended to last three months, the Chinese government said, during which tim...

China is now the second country after the US to operate a rover on the Red Planet.