The Chinese module landed at 1:18 CEST on the Utopia Planitia plain, where it transported a research robotic vehicle. It weighs about 240 kilograms. It has six wheels and four solar collectors. It can move around the surface of Mars at a speed of 200 meters per hour, the DPA agency wrote.
“China has left its mark on Mars for the first time,” the New China agency said. Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated all the people involved in the mission to Mars. According to him, thanks to them, China has moved “to the highest ranks of planetary research.”
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This year, the second artificial body launched from Earth landed on Mars. A robotic explorer of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) successfully landed on the planet in February.
The United States has made nine successful landings on Mars since 1976, the first being a Viking 2 probe module. Five years earlier, a Soviet spacecraft had reached the planet’s surface. However, shortly after landing, it stopped broadcasting.
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