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Zhurong: China becomes second country to drive a rover on surface of Mars CNN 2 hrs ago By Ben Westcott and Sarah Faidell, CNN © China National Space Administration The solar panel and antenna of the Zhurong rover, which unfolded normally after landing, on May 19. Chinas 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. T...

Chinas Mars Rover Starts Roaming The Red Planet 05/22/21 AT 4:16 AM 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 rover on the Red Planet. The launch last July of the Tianwen-1 Mars probe, which carried the Zhurong rover, marked a major milestone in Chinas space programme. Tianwen-1 touched down on a vast northern lava plain known as the Utopia Plan...

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.

BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhua): Chinas first Mars rover, Zhurong, drove down from its landing platform to the Martian surface on Saturday, leaving the countrys first "footprints" on the red planet. Zhurongs first successful drive made China the second country after the United States to land and operate a rover on Mars. The six-wheeled solar-powered rover, 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 Mars,...

May 22nd, 2021 A screen broadcasts a CCTV state media news bulletin, showing an image of Mars taken by Chinese Mars rover Zhurong as part of the Tianwen-1 mission, in Beijing, China, May 19, 2021. Thomas Peter / reuters A week after the China National Space Administration reported its Tianwen-1 mission had achieved a safe landing on Mars, the Zhurong rover has rolled off of its platform and onto the planets surface. As you can see in the animated GIF below, a series of still images from the ro...

China reveals first Mars photos taken by the Zhurong rover Autoblog 1 hr ago Engadget Chinas space agency has released the first photos taken by the Zhurong rover on Mars, showing parts of its lander and the red planet itself. The Tianwen-1 mission arrived at its destination on May 15th, making China the second nation to successfully soft-land on Mars after the US. One of the photos is a colored image (above) taken by the navigation camera mounted at the rear of the rover. It ...

The China National Space Administration made public the first photographs and videos sent back by the Tianwen-1 probe on Wednesday, four days after the Zhurong rover landed on the red planet. Images show parts of the rover and its lander with the terrain of the Utopia Planitia, the northern plain the rover will explore during its mission, in the background. Tianwen-1, which is a combination of orbiter, lander and rover, was launched on July 23,2020, and entered orbit around Mars on Feb. 24May 2...

by Tyler Durden Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 11:00 PM The next battleground between the US and China is Mars. While space has always been a domain for superpower rivalry, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) successfully landed a rover, called  Zhu Rong, on the Red Planet. Now two images have been sent back to Earth to show the success.  CNSA released a couple of pictures on its website of the rover, which touched down in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a large plain on the no...

NASA Scientists have long speculated that there is organic salt on Mars, and NASA thinks that it has found a way to prove it. The study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, indirectly points to the presence of organic salts using data from the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) — a portable chemistry lab inside the Curiosity rover. In order to confirm what the data is suggesting, the lead author of the paper, James MT Lewis, has suggested using the Chemistry and Mineralogy (...

China landed its Zhurong rover on Mars Saturday. After taking photos, the rover will start scanning the planet's volcanic-rock fields for water ice.