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China: Second Country After US To Land A Rover On Mars

  • 17 May 2021

China has successfully landed its rover Zhu Rong on Mars.

  • It landed in the Utopia Plain in southern part of Mars on 15th May 2021 after seven months of space travel and three months in orbit.
  • Now china is the second country after the USA to land a rover on Mars.
  • Besides Zhu Rong, there are two other operational rovers on Mars – Curiosity and Perseverance – both of them operated by Nasa, which has landed so far 10 missions on the red planet.
  • Zhu Rong is part of China’s first spacecraft for Mars, Tianwen-1, which was launched in July 2020 with three parts – orbiter, lander and rover.
  • It is one of three international Mars missions that was launched in the middle of 2020, along with NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in February and the United Arab Emirates' Hope Probe, which entered Mars orbit, also in February just to study the planet from orbit.