lpetrich
Contributor
I've been rather slow on this, but I haven't seen much coverage of it.
It was launched from Wenchang spaceport on 2020 Jul 23. That spaceport is on the NE end of Hainan island, off of SE mainland China's coast.
After nearly 7 months of interplanetary travel, it arrived on Mars on 2021 Feb 10 and went into orbit around that planet. After some 3 months of looking at pictures returned by that orbiter, the spacecraft's operators found a landing site for its lander. It is in Utopia Planitia, the Solar System's largest known impact feature, a place where the Viking 2 lander landed in 1976.
The lander was released and it landed on 2021 May 14, and the Zhurong rover left its lander on May 22.
So far, the only pictures I've seen from that rover are of its lander as the rover departed from it.
There is also a picture from orbit of the lander and the rover.
Timeline of Solar System exploration - List of missions to Mars
- Tianwen-1
- China's Zhurong Mars rover rolls onto the Martian surface (photos) | Space
- China's Zhurong rover takes first drive on Mars - BBC News
- China's Mars rover spotted on the surface by orbiting spacecraft - CNET
It was launched from Wenchang spaceport on 2020 Jul 23. That spaceport is on the NE end of Hainan island, off of SE mainland China's coast.
After nearly 7 months of interplanetary travel, it arrived on Mars on 2021 Feb 10 and went into orbit around that planet. After some 3 months of looking at pictures returned by that orbiter, the spacecraft's operators found a landing site for its lander. It is in Utopia Planitia, the Solar System's largest known impact feature, a place where the Viking 2 lander landed in 1976.
The lander was released and it landed on 2021 May 14, and the Zhurong rover left its lander on May 22.
So far, the only pictures I've seen from that rover are of its lander as the rover departed from it.
There is also a picture from orbit of the lander and the rover.
Timeline of Solar System exploration - List of missions to Mars