China Will Land a Rover on Mars: How to Watch China’s Tianwen-1 mission, orbiting the red planet since February, is expected to attempt a difficult landing of the Zhurong rover soon. An artist’s concept of the Chinese lunar probe and lander released by the Chinese state space agency in 2016.Credit...Xinhua, via Associated Press May 14, 2021Updated 4:46 p.m. ET China has sent astronauts to space. Its robotic probes have been to the moon and back. On Saturday (it will still be Friday in the United States) it will attempt a landing on Mars, a difficult operation that has ended in fiery failure many times for space programs that have tried it.