{"id":103688,"date":"2021-04-28T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T11:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=103688"},"modified":"2021-04-28T20:13:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:43:32","slug":"zhurong-chinas-first-mars-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zhurong-chinas-first-mars-rover\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Zhurong&#8221; &#8211; China&#8217;s first Mars rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?\u00a0<\/strong>The China National Space Administration has announced that it will name its first Mars rover \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zhurong-chinas-first-mars-rover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zhurong<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-box-red\">\n<h5><strong>About Zhurong:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Zhurong<\/strong> is <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zhurong-chinas-first-mars-rover\/\">China\u2019s first Mars rover <\/a>mission. The rover is aboard the Tianwen-1 space probe.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Launched in: <\/strong>The rover was launched in the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/history-and-significance-of-mars-missions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mars orbit Mission<\/a> in February 2021 and is due to land in May.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Named after: <\/strong>The rover is named after a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">traditional fire god<\/span>. The rover\u2019s title also fits with the Chinese name for Mars i.e. \u201cHuo Xing\u201d or fire star.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>Zhurong carries multispectral cameras and instruments to analyze the composition of the rocks. It will also investigate subsurface characteristics with ground-penetrating radar.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Landing Site:<\/strong> The expected landing site located in Utopia Planitia. It is the largest recognized impact basin on Mars.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance<\/strong>: China would become the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United States to put a robot rover on Mars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h5><strong>About Tianwen-1 mission:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tianwen-1 <\/strong>is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">China\u2019s first Mars exploration mission<\/span>. The name comes from the long poem \u201cTianwen,\u201d meaning Questions to Heaven.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectives: <\/strong>The mission has three objectives to fulfil:\n<ul>\n<li>To orbit the red planet for comprehensive observation.<\/li>\n<li>Land on Martian soil and send a rover to roam around the landing site.<\/li>\n<li>To conduct investigations into geological structure, atmosphere, environment, soil and water of Mars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/chinas-first-mars-rover-named-zhurong\/article34406877.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News?\u00a0The China National Space Administration has announced that it will name its first Mars rover \u2018Zhurong\u2019. About Zhurong: Zhurong is China\u2019s first Mars rover mission. The rover is aboard the Tianwen-1 space probe. Launched in: The rover was launched in the Mars orbit Mission in February 2021 and is due to land&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zhurong-chinas-first-mars-rover\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Zhurong&#8221; &#8211; China&#8217;s first Mars rover<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[1425],"class_list":["post-103688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-st_4","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704688107},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}