The Zhurong rover, the first Mars Rover of China, touched the Red Planet surface on May 14, and its first images reached Earth on May 19. Zhurong has been named after an ancient Chinese god of fire. Zhurong has been in the orbit of Mars since February 10 and it has been carried by China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft.
The rover touched down the Red Planet on early sunday Beijing time.
The rover landed in a vast plain called Utopia Planitia which is a vast terrain in the northern sphere of red planet. The Chinese scientists are hoping to get at least 90 Martian days of service out of this six-wheeled robot on this location of Utopia Planitia.
Image Credit: CNSA
Image Credit: CNSA
The China's National Space Administration also posted pictures and short videos showing the capsule that it used to enter the Martian atmosphere, departs the Tianwen-1 orbiter, the satellite that carried the rover from Earth.
