Posted on 05/22/2021 10:25:59 PM PDT by blam
Around 10:40 a.m. Saturday Beijing time, China’s first Mars rover officially drove down its landing platform ramp and began roaming the Red Planet, China National Space Administration (CNSA) said.
CNSA release another photograph (here’s the first) of the rover, called Zhurong, which touched down in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a large plain on the northern hemisphere of Mars, last Saturday.
Landing on the Red Planet is dangerous – CNSA said last week it was “nine minutes of terror” as the lander descended toward the planet’s surface at a high rate of speed, and the thin atmosphere didn’t have enough friction to slow the descent.
Only NASA has reached the surface of Mars intact on multiple occasions. According to the diagram below, the lander (with Zhurong encased inside) relied on parachutes and rocket engines to slow the descent. This method is similar to NASA’s, who has landed Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on Mars.
Space is no longer limited to the original Cold War superpowers (US & Russia). China has to been thrown into the mix after being the second country to land a rover on Mars.
China is becoming more active in space, especially on the Red Planet, alongside the US, which already has NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance probing for life. The US rover recently launched a helicopter, called Ingenuity, already performing five successful flights.
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That was lucky that they landed so close to one of our landers in order to get that photograph!
To be fair, after I went to the link it does have more realistic images.
An actual image from the surface of Mars
> “Space is no longer limited to the original Cold War superpowers (US & Russia).”
And guess who gave the CCP the rocket guidance systems to carry their rovers and other payload equipment to space?
Local under and in cahoots with BJ Clinton.
Your first point is still in play; how were they able to take that picture in the first place?
It would be pretty funny if our little helicopter had just one little miniature Hellfire on it.
China is now in a position to return the “favor”.
Our rovers better keep checking their rear-view cams. Parts might start disappearing.
Did our rover get hungry and order carryout?
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