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China’s first Mars rover drives onto red planet’s surface – ecns
China’s first Mars rover, Zhurong, has driven down from its landing platform to the Martian surface, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on…
China’s first Mars rover, Zhurong, has driven down from its landing platform to the Martian surface, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on Saturday.
Zhurong’s first successful drive made China the second country after the United States to land and operate a rover on Mars.
According to the telemetry data, Zhurong set its wheels on Martian soil at 10:40 a.m. (Beijing Time) on Saturday, the CNSA said.
China’s Tianwen-1 mission, consisting of an orbiter, a lander and a rover, was…
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