China’s Mars rover returns first images

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32 pointshheikinh4 comments

>Zhurong’s mission is expected to last three months

This seems laughably short, even by the low bar countries like to set for their Mars rovers.

That was exactly the mission duration for Spirit and Opportunity. Doesn’t seem too far off, if Chinese rover tech is ~15 years behind NASA/JPL…

What countries? China is only the second country ever to land anything at all, let alone a rover, on Mars.

Third, the Soviet Union landed a probe on Mars in 1971.