Drilling two meters deep for sampling will be a world first,” said Hou Zengqian, China’s chief scientist on the Tianwen-3 ...

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 ...

Zhurong is exploring Mars at the same time as NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on the Red Planet just months before Zhurong. The two rovers are different in terms of size.

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’s Zhurong Mars rover is about to start exploring the Red Planet. It’s a remarkable feat that previously only NASA has pulled off.

China’s Zhurong rover has sent back its first images since landing on Mars Saturday, becoming the third nation to accomplish the technically challenging feat. The rover’s camera took photos of ...

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 ...

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 ...

On May 15, China's Zhurong rover landed on Mars. The rover just left its landing pad and completed its first test drive on the Martian surface.

The Zhurong rover is smaller than the other rovers currently exploring Mars, NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance. Those rovers are around the size of a small car each, while Zhurong is less than 2 ...