Watch footage of China's Zhurong rover moving on the Martian surface. It was captured by a camera the rover deployed on Mars.

China’s ambitions have surged since May 2021, when its Tianwen-1 mission made it the second nation after the U.S. to land on Mars. The Zhurong rover explored Utopia Planitia, paving the way for bigger ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

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A Chinese research team has discovered multi-layered tilted sedimentary structures beneath the surface of the Mars rover Zhurong's landing area in the northern hemisphere of Mars, which are the ...

Zhurong's long, short journey After reaching Mars in 2021 the Zhurong rover landed in the Utopia Planitia region, which has long been considered a good candidate for finding evidence of an ocean.

Since Zhurong landed in 2021 — in one of the largest and oldest impact basins on Mars, known as Utopia Planitia — the rover has traveled about 1.24 miles (2 kilometers) studying the geology of ...

Geochemical analysis from Zhurong suggests that the potential ocean on Mars may have formed some 3.7 billion years ago due to flooding, before freezing and disappearing around 3.4 billion years ago.

China’s Mars rover Zhurong has found evidence of a coastline from a short-lived ancient ocean, adding to decades of research into the red planet’s watery past.

China's Zhurong rover is currently on the surface of Mars—at least, that's where we saw it last. The solar-powered rover did not awaken after the long Martian winter, and it's unclear if it ever ...

A joint research team led by Prof. DU Aimin from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) has found extremely weak magnetic fields during the Zhurong ...