China Lands Its Rover Zhurong On Mars Successfully

 

Shailesh Kumar, National Defence
New Delhi, 15 May 2021

People’s daily of China confirms that China’s lander carrying China’s first rover has touched down mars surface successfully. Siting China’s National Space Administration, People’s daily says it was the country’s first successful attempt to land a rover on Mars. China has become second country after United States of America to successfully land rovers on red planet. Russia earlier made an attempt but it’s rover named “Mars 3” stopped functioning after 110 seconds. US has landed 5 rovers so far. With successful mars landing, both rivals are up for competition in space race…

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