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

Mars' tilt changes over a 124,000-year cycle, so "this offers a replenishing mechanism for vapor in the atmosphere to form frost or snow at low latitudes where the Zhurong rover has landed," Qin ...

China's Zhurong Mars rover is adjusting to its first winter on the Red Planet while its companion orbiter Tianwen-1 continues to map the world from above. Skip to main content.

A Chinese Mars rover may have found evidence of an ancient ocean on the arid Red Planet. According to a new paper in the journal Scientific Reports, China's Zhurong rover has discovered traces of ...

China became the second country in the world to successfully land a rover on Mars after its Zhurong craft touched down on the red planet. Named after the Chinese god of fire, Zhurong was aboard ...

China unveiled new photos of its Mars rover exploring the surface of the red planet on Friday, with state media hailing it as a sign of the mission’s “complete success.”. The Zhurong rover ...

The new data comes from the Zhurong rover, part of China's Tianwen-1 mission, which landed on Mars in May 2021. The six-wheeled rover was sent to investigate Utopia Planitia, a region far from ...

The Zhurong rover landed in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars in 2021 and spent nearly a year exploring before entering hibernation for the Martian winter in May 2022, according to ABC.

Zhurong arrived on Mars in May 2021 as part of the Tianwen-1 mission, which included a lander and an orbiter. China became only the second country to successfully operate a rover on Mars, putting ...

T oday, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy beaches. Data from China's Zhurong rover recently revealed the ...

Zhurong, the Chinese Martian rover, is equipped with special radar systems that allow it to penetrate and measure the subsurface of Mars. CNSA ...

Present-day Mars is a barren and inhospitable planet, but it may have once had sandy beaches and tranquil ocean vistas.According to findings published on February 24 in the Proceedings of the ...