Posted on 05/15/2021 6:17:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
China’s space program took a great leap forward Saturday morning when a rover the size of a small car landed on the planet Mars. It was China’s first successful landing on the red planet — a feat of engineering and luck, according to space experts.
About half of the Mars missions to attempt a landing have failed. The U.S. has had its share of failures but has stuck the landing for the last seven missions. Currently, the U.S. has its own rover on Mars — Perseverance. China thus becomes only the second nation to successfully touch down on the surface of Mars.
Zhurong, the name given to the rover, is the Chinese fire god.
The six-wheeled rover, which is about the size of NASA’s twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, carries six scientific instruments on board, including two panoramic cameras, a ground-penetrating radar and a magnetic field detector. It also has a laser that it can use to zap rocks and study their composition, as well as a meteorological instrument to study the climate and weather on Mars.
Zhurong will work in tandem with the Tianwen-1 orbiter to study the Red Planet, and the orbiter will serve as a data relay station for communications between Zhurong and mission controllers on Earth. The orbiter is designed to last for at least one Mars year, or about 687 Earth days.
China recently completed a successful sample return mission from the moon. And the Chinese have recently launched the first module in what is to be their own version of a space station. Clearly, China is working toward challenging NASA’s longtime dominance in space.
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Is it carrying biological weapons?
This would have never happened if Bill Clinton would’ve never gave China our missile technology.
This would never have happened if Nixon had ignored that idiot Kissinger and not gone to China.
Easy peasy for Americans. CCP gonna have its day on CNN in every airport.
FU chinese communits party.
Yes, I typed communits.
Will China do a coup on NASA by releasing actual color pix and un retouched photos of structures? Could get interesting, eh?
You honestly believe this is all a movie the Chinese are presenting to the world? ( OJ Simpson was in that movies by the way ).
Does this car leak bubbles also?
I call BS.
And when can we expect another pile of their space shit falling to earth, since their crap has fallen twice since last year.
I remember going to the local theater to see that movie.
Maybe that little helicopter we have up there can pay a visit to the Chinese rover...like clip off its antenna.
Oh, yeah, I forgot...
They are experts at creating gain-of-function respiratory infections that have killed millions of mostly old and sick people in every country on planet Earth.
I despise the CCP and all it stands for. I am glad their probe landed successfully on Mars and may contribute to good science and discovery.
Every dollar they spend on this is one less dollar they spend on attacking the world.
Joke, I know, but have we gotten the helicopter working again? We seem to have some soft of softwaare issue that sometimes prevents the copter from taking off.
I’m assuming that their orbiter will crash on Mars, so there’s that.
kind of a joke, but I don’t trust anything the CCP say or do. The movie fascinated me growing up.
Send our Rover to kill it. We have air superiority.
It's a pretty widely held belief among some of the nuttier folks here that everything is a movie. The election, the middle east, the space program, the pandemic. That's too bad, as I've seen all these movies before and they all suck.
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