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NAGASAKI -- Each year there are fewer and fewer people still living who have direct experience of the U.S. military's atomic bombings of Japan. Hibaku

The China National Space Administration has released the first photos of the Martian surface taken by its Zhurong rover. The front view of the rover, captured in black and white, shows the flat landscape of Utopia Planitia, which appears slightly curved in the horizon. The second shot, showing the rear of the spacecraft, is in colour and shows its unfolded solar panels and antennas.   Zhurong successfully touched down on Utopia Planitia, a vast northern lava plain on the Red Planet, last Saturday (May 15).  It blasted off from Earth in July 2020, tucked in the belly of China's Tianwen-1 s...

The country becomes the first one to successfully carry out orbiting, landing and roving operations during its first ...

China´s Zhurong rover touches down on Red Planet By Sunday May 16, 2021 BEIJING: China´s probe to Mars touched down on the Red Planet Saturday to deploy its Zhurong rover, state media reported, a triumph for Beijing´s bold space ambitions and a history-making feat for a nation on its first-ever Martian mission. The lander carrying Zhurong completed the treacherous descent through the Martian atmosphere using a parachute to navigate the "seven minutes of terror" as it is known, aiming for a vast northern lava plain known as the Utopia Planitia. It "successfully landed in the pre-selected ...