China drives Zhurong rover on Mars
China’s Mars rover has driven down from its landing platform to the surface of the Red planet after a week of its arrival there, the media reported.
| 24 May 2021 5:08 AM GMT
BEIJING: China's Mars rover has driven down from its landing platform to the surface of the Red planet after a week of its arrival there, the media reported.
China landed a probe on a planet other than Earth for the first time on May 15. It has now become the second country, after the US, to operate a rover on the Red planet. The Zhurong robot is due to study the planet's surface rocks and atmosphere. It will also look for signs of life, including any subsurface water or ice, the BBC reported.