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May 14, 2021 · China’s Mars Rover Mission Lands on the Red Planet. ... That is a bit heftier than the Spirit and Opportunity rovers that NASA landed on Mars in 2004, but only about one-fourth the mass of the ...
China has successfully landed a spacecraft on Mars, state media announced early on Saturday.The six-wheeled Zhurong robot was targeting Utopia Planitia, a va...
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May 14, 2021 · Biggest test yet. The Tianwen-1 mission included an orbiter, a lander and a rover — making it the first to send all three elements to the planet. The spacecraft departed Earth in July 2020 and ...
May 11, 2022 · China’s Zhurong rover has found evidence suggesting that water persisted on Mars for much longer than expected. Zhurong landed in a large plain in Mars’ northern hemisphere called Utopia ...
Feb 10, 2021 · China has successfully sent two rovers to the moon, including one that landed on the never-before-visited far side. An attempt to send an orbiter to Mars atop a Russian rocket in 2011 ended in ...
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May 15, 2021 · Science May 15, 2021 6:18 PM EDT. BEIJING — China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time on Saturday, a technically challenging feat more difficult than a moon landing, in the latest ...
Tianwen-1 Chinese: 天问一号 (also referred to as TW-1; simplified Chinese: 天 问; traditional Chinese: 天 問; lit. 'Heavenly Questions'') is an interplanetary mission by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) which sent a robotic spacecraft to Mars, consisting of 6 spacecraft: an orbiter, two deployable cameras, lander, remote camera, and the Zhurong rover.
