14 May 2021
China is about to land its Zhurong rover on Mars
... that China was getting ready to land its rover, Zhurong, on Mars during a descent window which started...tall and weighing 240 kilograms, Zhurong, named after an ancient fire god, is smaller than NASA’s Curiosity rover but slightly larger than the ...
17 May 2021
China's Zhurong rover touches down on Mars
... confirming the successful landing. China's first Mars rover is named Zhurong after the god of fire in ancient Chinese mythology...due to the exceptionally difficult nature of such maneuvers. Zhurong will move from its landing module onto the Martian ...
11 June 2021
China unveils new Mars images, and prepares to launch first astronauts to space station
... week for China as the nation not only releases its first pictures of Mars taken by Zhurong, the country's first martian rover, but also gears up to send three astronauts to its orbiting space station in the coming days...
27 August 2021
China funds 5yr study into kilometre-scale ultra-large spacecraft
..., Lehao said. China is going from strength to strength in its ambitious space programme. Along with successfully landing a rover on Mars, the nation recently began work on its Tiangong space station. Chinese astronauts are currently working...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... already exist on other worlds and be waiting for our discovery? The recent deployment of the Perseverance and Zhurong rovers as a part of the Mars20 and Tianwen-1 missions respectively, will take samples of Martian regolith and explore surface...
