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Defeating the achievements of the US and Russia, China shows off in the race for the expedition to Mars

ILLUSTRATION. Planet Mars.

Source: AFP | Editor: Tendi Mahadi

KONTAN.CO.ID – BEIJING. China made history in the space sector after vehicles rover Zhurong successfully landed on Mars on Saturday morning (May 15). This seems to be a victory over Beijing’s increasingly daring space ambitions in space missions.

Chinese state media reported that the Zhurong rover vehicle completed a treacherous landing through the Martian atmosphere using a parachute to navigate a “seven minutes of terror” to a point of northern lava plains known as Utopia Planitia.

The report noted that the mission landed successfully in a pre-selected area. Meanwhile the official Xinhua news agency quoted China’s National Space Agency as confirming the landing.

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This made China the first country to conduct orbiting, landing and exploration operations during its first mission to Mars. An achievement that is unmatched by the two other countries that started the Red Planet first, namely the US and Russia.

Zhurong, named after the god of fire in Chinese myth, arrives months behind America’s latest probe into Mars, when a show of technological power between two superpowers is played out beyond Earth’s borders.

Six-wheeled, solar powered and weighing about 240kg, rover This Chinese property is on a search mission to collect and analyze rock samples from the surface of Mars.

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Rover it is estimated that it will take about three months there.

The launch of China’s Tianwen-1 Mars probe, which carries the rover last July, marked an important milestone in China’s space program.



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