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 ...

The flowing celestial robes in Dunhuang murals, featuring flying goddesses, and the legendary attempt by Wan Hu to reach ...

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the fire god Zhurong, a character in Chinese myths. The rover is part of China’s Mars Mission.

The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and is part of China’s Mars Mission. It landed on Mars in 2021 and explored the surface for 358 Mars days before ...

Launched from Hainan, China, in July 2020, the Zhurong rover landed on Mars in May 2021 in an area known as Utopia Planitia, a plain which lies in the largest-known impact crater in the solar system.

Watch footage of China's Zhurong rover moving on the Martian surface. It was captured by a camera the rover deployed on Mars. Also, listen to audio the rover recorded during it deployment onto the ...

Schematic of the Chinese Mars Sample Return mission, where the lander will drill 2 metres deep to collect the samples and ...

Findings from the Zhurong rover now fill that gap. Zhurong is part of China's Tianwen-1 Mars exploration mission. It landed on the Utopia Planitia, a vast plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars, on ...

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NASA has captured a breathtaking image of Arsia Mons, one of Mars' most massive volcanoes, towering nearly twice the height of any mountain on Earth. Captured at dawn by the 2001 Mars Odyssey ...

The image, taken in October 2024 using the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on the European Space Agency 's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter, shows a crumbling crater called Deuteronilus Cavus. It ...