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

Zhurong's long, short journey After reaching Mars in 2021 the Zhurong rover landed in the Utopia Planitia region, which has long been considered a good candidate for finding evidence of an ocean.

Since Zhurong landed in 2021 — in one of the largest and oldest impact basins on Mars, known as Utopia Planitia — the rover has traveled about 1.24 miles (2 kilometers) studying the geology of ...

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 dust accumulation.

Geochemical analysis from Zhurong suggests that the potential ocean on Mars may have formed some 3.7 billion years ago due to flooding, before freezing and disappearing around 3.4 billion years ago.

The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the Chinese fire god Zhurong. It landed on Mars in 2021 and explored the surface for 358 Mars days and became inactive in 2022. It is still on Mars today.

A joint research team led by Prof. DU Aimin from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) has found extremely weak magnetic fields during the Zhurong ...

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 May 15, 2021.

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 ...