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An important step in our country’s interstellar exploration journey – state media
Katyanna Quach Fri 14 May 2021 // 22:37 UTC Share
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Updated China s Zhurong rover today touched down on Mars from the Tianwen-1 orbiter, the nation s state media says.
We re told the machine will take carry out self-tests, and try to move itself to explore the Red Planet s surface. On May 15, our country’s first Mars exploration mission, Tianwen-1, landed in a pre-selected landing zone in the southern Utopia Planitia of Mars, leaving a Chinese footprint on Mars for the first time. It marks an important step in our country’s interstellar exploration journey, Xinhua reported at 0837 in Beijing (1737 PT, 0037 UTC).