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On its first try, China’s Zhurong rover hit a Mars milestone that took NASA decades – The Conversation AU
China has fast-tracked its way onto the red planet, almost matching NASA’s capability in a fraction of the time. Its Zhurong rover will become the first to measure…
Chinas Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the red planet.
More impressively still, China is the first Mars-going nation to carry out an orbiting, landing and rovering operation as its first mission.
Planetary scientist Roberto Orosei told Nature China is doing in a single go what NASA took decades to do, while astrophysicist Jonathon McDowell described Chinas decision to include a rover in its maiden Mars outing as…
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