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BEIJING: China’s Mars rover Zhurong has travelled more than 1,000m on the surface of the red planet, the Lunar Exploration and Space Programme Centre of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said.
BEIJING, July 18 (Xinhua): China's Mars rover Zhurong has travelled more than 509 metres on the surface of the red planet as of 11pm on Saturday (July 17), according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Programme Centre of the China National Space Administration. The rover will soon arrive at the second sand dune on its journey on the red planet. It will carry out a detailed survey of the dune and surrounding environment, said the administration. As of Saturday, Zhurong has been operating on the surface of Mars for 63 Martian days. A Martian day is approximately 40 minutes longer than a day on ...
China lands its rover on Mars PTI Beijing | Updated on × Tianwen-1, launched on July 23, 2020, aimed at orbiting, landing, and roving — all in one mission — on the red planet China has successfully landed a spacecraft on Mars after surviving "nine minutes of terror", the official media announced on Saturday, becoming the second country in history to have a rover on the red planet. The rover, Zhurong, named after a god of fire and war in Chinese mythology, landed at the pre-selected area in Utopia Planitia on Mars, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The six-wheel solar-powered Zh...
Share The Chang'e-5 lunar probe gathers samples on the Moon -- it has now returned safely to Earth. China’s first craft returns to Earth with Moon rocks Thu, 17 December 2020 An unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth early on December 17, completing another chapter in China’s effort to become a space superpower. The mission was the first in four decades to collect lunar samples, emulating the feats of the US and the Soviet Union from the 1960s and 1970s – and going a few steps further. Scientists hope the samples will give insights int...