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.
This picture released on May 19, 2021, by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) via CNS shows an image taken by the navigation camera of China s Zhurong rover on the surface of Mars, showing the rover s solar panels and antenna, after it landed on Mars on May 15, 2021. - AFP
BEIJING (Bloomberg): China has released the first photographs and video from its Mars probe, four days after the spacecraft landed on the Red Planet.
The first photograph, a black and white image, was taken by an obstacle avoidance camera installed in front of the Mars rover, the China National Space Administration said in a statement on its website.