China’s Zhurong Mars rover will continue exploring Mars after completing its initial program and search for frozen water that could provide clues as to whether it once supported life.
Zhurong Mars rover is soldiering on after completing its initial program to explore the red planet and search for frozen water that could provide clues as to whether it once supported life.completed its 90-day program on Aug. 15 and was in excellent technical condition and fully charged.
It said it would continue to explore the area known as Utopia Planitia where it landed on May 14. Zhurong has been consistently sending back photos and data via the Tianwen-1 orbiter that crosses over it once a day. , China is the second country to land and sustainably operate a spacecraft on Mars, where days are 40 minutes longer than on Earth.At 1.85 meters in height, Zhurong is significantly smaller than the American Perseverance rover, which is exploring the planet with a tiny helicopter. NASA expects its rover to collect its first sample in July for return to Earth as early as 2031., with three astronauts now aboard the Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, core that was put into orbit on April 29.
China also recently brought back lunar samples, the first by any country’s space program since the 1970s, and has landed a probe and rover on the moon’s less explored far side.The Associated Press
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