China's Mars rover accomplishes planned exploration tasks
As of Aug. 15, 2021, Zhurong had worked on the surface of Mars for 90 Martian days, or about 92 days on Earth, with all scientific payloads having started to work on detection tasks, said the administration.
Zhurong is part of China's Tianwen-1 Mars exploration mission. It landed on the Utopia Planitia, a vast plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars, on May 15, 2021. It has traveled approximately 2 kilometers and relayed a torrent of data to Earth before switching to dormant mode. It's landing site was in a low-latitude region of Mars.
