Zhurong
GS PAPER III: Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life.
Context: China’s first Mars rover named Zhurong after a traditional fire god.
About Chinese space plans
- Tianwen-1's goals include analysing and mapping the Martian surface and geology, looking for water ice and studying the climate and surface environment.
- The rover is aboard the Tianwen-1 probe that arrived in Mars orbit and is due to land in May to look for evidence of life.
- It is part of Chinese space plans that include launching a crewed orbital station and landing a human on the moon.
- China in 2019 became the first country to land a space probe on the little-explored far side of the moon and in December returned lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s.
- China would become the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United States to put a robot rover on Mars.
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