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Watch footage of China's Zhurong rover moving on the Martian surface. It was captured by a camera the rover deployed on Mars.
The Zhurong rover, named after a god of fire in Chinese mythology, landed on the Utopia Planitia region of Mars on May 15. This is China’s first Mars mission ...
China’s Zhurong rover has sent back its first images since landing on Mars Saturday, becoming the third nation to accomplish the technically challenging feat. The rover’s camera took photos of ...
BEIJING -- A team of Chinese geologists has created a Mars soil simulant that almost replicates Utopia Planitia soil, a ...
Since Zhurong, which is now suffocating under dust-coated solar panels, has revealed water activity on top of and inside salty Martian dunes, researchers of the new study propose future missions ...
Zhurong has taken up residence in Utopia Planitia, a plains region that was visited by NASA's Viking 2 mission in the 1970s. The landscape seen by China's rover looks familiarly Martian.
Zhurong landed in Utopia Planitia on May 14 and rolled onto the surface a week later, having remained in orbit since February after Tianwen 1 arrived at Mars.
China's rover Zhurong and its lander are seen in this image captured on the surface of Mars in 2021 by a camera detached from the rover [File: China National Space Administration/Reuters] ...
Zhurong, part of the Tianwen-1 mission, successfully landed on Mars on May 15, 2021, in the Utopia Planitia region. This area was selected because of its flat terrain, ...
China became the second country in the world to successfully land a rover on Mars after its Zhurong craft touched down on the red planet. Named after the Chinese god of fire, Zhurong was aboard ...
A model of Chinese Mars rover Zhurong, part of China's Tianwen-1 space mission, is seen displayed at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China, in Zhuhai ...
Zhurong, part of the Tianwen-1 mission, successfully landed on Mars on May 15, 2021, in the Utopia Planitia region.This area was selected because of its flat terrain, which increased the chances ...