China Adds Rover To Mars Surface Fleet

Irene Klotz Maxim Pyadushkin May 21, 2021
images from Chinese rover on Mars
This is one of the first images sent back from the China National Space Administration’s Zhurong rover in Utopia Planitia on Mars.
Credit: CNSA
Five months after returning the first samples from the Moon in 45 years, China pulled off a successful landing on Mars, demonstrating its growing technical prowess in the challenging field of planetary exploration. The May 14 touchdown of China’s Tianwen-1 lander, which carried the Zhurong rover...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

Maxim Pyadushkin

In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine. In the past he was in charge of several ATO’s sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.

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