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 ...

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Drilling two meters deep for sampling will be a world first,” said Hou Zengqian, China’s chief scientist on the Tianwen-3 mission, in a recent interview with China Science Daily. That one sentence ...

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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 ...

Zhurong, named after a mythical Chinese fire god, started its mission with six scientific tools in May 2021 and went into hibernation a year later, likely due to dust accumulation.

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.

With the assistance of China’s Zhurong rover, scientists have gathered fresh evidence that Mars was home to an ocean billions of years ago – a far cry from the dry and desolate world it is today.

The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the Chinese fire god Zhurong. It landed on Mars in 2021 and explored the surface for 358 Mars days and became inactive in 2022. It is still on Mars today.

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 ...