Melbourne, Australia (The Conversation) May 20, 2021
China's Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the red planet. More impressively still, China is the first Mars-going nation to carry out an orbiting, landing and rovering operation as its first mission. Planetary scientist Roberto Orosei told Nature China is "doing in a single go what NASA took decades to
On its first try, China's Zhurong rover hit a Mars milestone
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