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Xinhua Headlines: China's first Mars rover starts exploring red planet 22 May 2021, 21:55 GMT+10 -- China's first Mars rover, Zhurong, drove down from its landing platform to the Martian surface Saturday, leaving the country's 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 planet's surface, detect its sub-surface structure and magnetic field, search for traces of water ice and observe the...

BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhua): China's first Mars rover, Zhurong, drove down from its landing platform to the Martian surface on Saturday, leaving the country's first "footprints" on the red planet. Zhurong's 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, starting its journey to explore the fourth planet from the sun. According to the telemetry data,...

China becomes the third country to land on the surface of Mars An artist's impression of the Tianwen-1 lander module touching down on Mars China National Space Administration China National Space Administration China has taken another big step forward in its ambitious space program, successfully landing its Tianwen-1 probe on Mars to become just the third nation to touch down on the Red Planet. Onboard is the country's Zhurong lander, which is currently surveying the surrounding environment and will soon be rolled out to study the Martian environment from the surface. China's Tianwen-...

The lander carrying China's first Mars rover has successfully touched down on the red planet early Saturday morning Beijing Time.

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced that Tianwen, China's first Mars rover, has landed on Mars. President Xi Jinping has also expressed his congratulations to everyone.