China’s Mars rover takes first drive on surface of the red planet
Zhurong, China’s first Mars rover, has left its landing capsule and is now exploring the red planet’s surface. A remote-controlled Chinese motorised rover drove down the ramp of its landing capsule on Saturday and onto the surface of Mars, making China the first nation to orbit, land and deploy a land vehicle on its inaugural mission to the Red Planet. Zhurong, named after a mythical Chinese god of fire, drove down to the surface of Mars at 10:40am Beijing time, according to the rover’s official Chinese social media account. “The slow progress of the rover was due to the limited understanding of the Martian environment, so a relatively conservative working mode was specially designed,” Jia Yang, an engineer involved in the mission, told China Space News.
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