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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...