China has become the first country after the USA to successfully land a space rover on Mars.
The six-wheeled Zhurong rover landed on the planet just before midnight on Friday (UK time), according to Chinese state media.
It’s a big deal because until now only the USA had managed to do the same successfully. All the other countries that tried either had their rover crash or lost contact with it soon after it reached the surface.
Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated the mission team on its “outstanding achievement.”
The Zhurong rover was carried to the planet on the Tianwen-1 spacecraft ... Read even more
