China’s Zhurong rover snapped this broad panorama of the Utopia Planitia space of Mars.
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This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet.
August has been fairly the month for Mars panoramas. First, NASA’s Curiosity rover celebrated 9 years on the crimson planet with a rock-studded view of the Gale Crater. Now China’s Zhurong rover is getting in on the motion with a sandy scene from its Martian dwelling in Utopia Planitia.
Zhurong, a part of the China Nationwide House Administration’s Tianwen-1 Mars mission, is scoping out a broad plains area. CNSA launched a panorama view on Monday that additionally reveals off the rover’s photo voltaic panels. The panorama is stuffed with small rocks, together with some beautiful sand dunes seen on the appropriate facet of the panorama.
Whereas Curiosity is marking its Mars time in years, Zhurong has proudly outlasted its original three-month life expectancy and is now on an prolonged mission because it continues to work its means throughout Utopia Planitia. CNSA introduced the extension earlier this month. To this point the rover has lined almost 3,500 ft (1,064 meters) since touchdown in Might.
The panorama provides to Zhurong’s spectacular picture album. In June, the rover delivered one of the finest Mars portraits ever taken due to an help from a distant digicam.
China’s Tianwen-1 mission consists of an orbiter, a lander and a rover. Zhurong’s presence introduced the variety of energetic Mars rovers as much as three together with NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance, that are off exploring totally different components of the planet. Meaning we at the moment have a humiliation of rover riches giving us home windows onto the crimson planet’s wild and rocky vistas.
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