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

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 ...

It had one all along. The new data comes from the Zhurong rover, part of China's Tianwen-1 mission, which landed on Mars in May 2021. Credit: Chinese National Space Administration ...

Zhurong rover's mission and legacy Zhurong, named after a mythical Chinese fire god, started its mission with six scientific tools in May 2021 and went into hibernation a year later, likely due to ...

According to a paper published in the journal Science Advances, the Zhurong rover, which landed on Mars in 2021, detected evidence of liquid water on sand dunes at low latitudes, i.e., towards the ...

China’s Zhurong Mars rover pictured next to its landing base. Image taken by a remote camera deployed from the rover. Photo: China National Space Administration ...

The (currently malfunctioning) Zhurong rover is sitting on the southern edge of Utopia Planitia, a vast series of volcanic plains on Mars. The rover landed there in May 2021.

Zhurong, China 's first Mars rover, is likely covered in dust, coating its solar panels and making it impossible to generate enough power to wake up from a planned hibernation, Zhang Rongqiao ...