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Xinhua Headlines: China succeeds in first Mars landing Yu Fei,Quan Xiaoshu,Li Mi,Liu Xin
Xinhua Headlines: China succeeds in first Mars landing
Replay Video UP NEXT A Chinese spacecraft streaked down through the Martian sky on Saturday, becoming the country s first probe to land on a planet other than Earth. It is the first time in the world that orbiting and landing on Mars is completed in one launch mission. After flying for approximately three hours, the entry capsule hurtled toward the red planet and entered the Mars atmosphere at an altitude of 125 km, initiating the riskiest phase of the whole mission.
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, members at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center celebrate after China’s Tianwen-1 probe successfully landed on Mars, at the center in Beijing, Saturday, May 15, 2021. Jin Liwang/AP
China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time on Saturday, a technically challenging feat more difficult than a moon landing, in the latest step forward for its ambitious goals in space.
Plans call for a rover to stay in the lander for a few days of diagnostic tests before rolling down a ramp to explore an area of Mars known as Utopia Planitia. It will join an American rover that arrived at the red planet in February.
A Red Dawn on Mars: China becomes first non-American nation to successfully land spacecraft on red planet after Tianwen-1 touches down three months after NASA s latest rover
China s state media reported that the spacecraft touched down at what was 7.18pm Eastern time in the United States on Friday
Plans call for a rover to stay in the lander for a few days of diagnostic tests before exploring an icy area of Mars known as Utopia Planitia
The rover will join an American rover that arrived at the red planet in February
China s rover is named Zhurong after a god of fire in Chinese folk tales
China successfully lands rover on Mars after ‘seven minutes of terror’ in new space race with US
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Updated: May 16 2021, 13:44 ET
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CHINA S Mars rover has landed on the Red Planet after a treacherous descent through the Martian atmosphere using a parachute in seven minutes of terror .
Zhurong, named after a Chinese mythical fire god, arrives a few months behind America s latest probe to Mars - Perseverance - sparking a new space race with the US.
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The six-wheeled solar-powered rover is on a quest to collect and analyse rock samples from Mars surface.
The landing was a nail-biter for the China National Space Administration (CNSA), with state media describing the process of using a parachute to slow descent and buffer legs as the most challenging part of the mission .
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