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Chinas first Mars rover steps out to explore red planet Chinas Tianwen-1 mission, consisting of an orbiter, a lander and a rover, was launched on July 23, 2020. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- In this artists rendering made available by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Saturday, May 22, 2021, Chinas Zhurong rover is depicted on the surface of Mars. (Photo | AP) By PTI BEIJING: Chinas first Mars rover on Saturday drove down from its landing platform to the Martian surface to...

  A remote-controlled Chinese motorised rover drove down the ramp of its landing capsule on Saturday and on to the surface of Mars, making China the first nation to orbit, land and deploy a land vehicle on its inaugural mission to the red planet. Zhurong, named after a mythical Chinese god of fire, drove down to the surface of Mars at 10.40am Beijing time (2.40am GMT), according to the rover’s official Chinese social media account. China this month joined the United States as the only nat...

It is the first country to successfully orbit, land and deploy a vehicle on the Red Planet on its first try.

Chinese rover starts exploring Mars 2021-05-22 HKT 16:53 Share this story Tianwen-1 touched down on a vast northern lava plain known as the Utopia Planitia a week ago. Photo: AFP The six-wheeled, solar-powered, 240-kilogramme Zhurong is named after a Chinese mythical fire god. File photo: AFP Chinas Mars rover drove from its landing platform and began exploring the surface on Saturday, state-run Xinhua news agency said, making the country only the second nation to land and operate...

A few days ago, on 15 May, China's Tianwen-1 probe landed the country's Zhurong rover on Mars. It marked the first attempt China had made to perform this

Xinhua Headlines: Chinas first Mars rover starts exploring red planet 22 May 2021, 21:55 GMT+10 -- Chinas first Mars rover, Zhurong, drove down from its landing platform to the Martian surface Saturday, leaving the countrys first "footprints" on the red planet. -- With an expected lifespan of at least 90 Martian days (about three months on Earth), Zhurong will record the Martian landscape with high-resolution three-dimensional images, analyze the material composition of the planets surface, det...

It is the first country to successfully orbit, land and deploy a vehicle on the Red Planet on its first try.

China's Mars rover drove from its landing platform and began exploring the surface on Saturday, state-run Xinhua news agency said, mak

Chinas first Mars rover has driven down its landing platform to roam the on the surface of the red planet. Rover Zhurong, left its module for the first time on Saturday (May 22) morning. China landed the spacecraft carrying the rover on Mars on May 15 in a technically challenging feat that is more difficult than a moon landing. Zhurong, named after the Chinese god of fire, is the second rover to land on another planet, after the U.S rover Perseverance in February. Like the U.S. mission, it is s...

BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhua) -- China first Mars rover, Zhurong, has driven down from its landing platform to the Martian surface, the China National Space Administ