On its first try, China's Zhurong rover hit a Mars milestone that took NASA decades
- Written by Sara Webb, PhD candidate in Astrophysics, Swinburne University of Technology
CNSAChina’s Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the red planet.
More impressively still, China is the first Mars-going nation to carry out an orbiting, landing and rovering operation as its first mission.
Planetary scientist Roberto Orosei told Nature China is...





