Newly posted images of the Chinese robot on Mars

The “Zhurong”, China’s explorer vehicle on Mars, is the protagonist of new audiovisual material, both photos and videos and sounds, published today by the National Space Administration of China (ANEC), according to the EFE agency.

The new material consists of two photos, three videos and a sound file.

Among the photographs, there is a 360-degree color panorama of the bleak and stony surface of the red planet and a black and white snapshot of the round of the “Zhurong” (in honor of the fire god in ancient Chinese mythology) with the landing module of the Tianwen-1 probe in the background.

As for the videos, one of them is from the landing process – on May 15th – and the other the explorer robot appears to maneuver, an image that was captured a few meters away by a removable camera that the vehicle usually installs at the bottom.

In the last one, the aforementioned camera captures “Zhurong” moving away after separating from it.

The sound file includes the process of descending the landing platform of the Tianwen-1 spacecraft onto the surface of Mars, which occurred on 22 May.

According to information published today by ANEC on its website, the “Zhurong” has been operating on the surface of the red planet for 42 Martian days and has traveled about 236 meters.

This vehicle is part of the Chinese Tianwen-1 mission sent into space in July 2020, whose landing probe reached the planet’s surface on May 15, in the southern part of the so-called ‘Utopia Planitia’, a plain located in the northern hemisphere.

Tianwen-1 (which translates to “heavenly matters”) is China’s first Mars exploration mission and the first in history to combine travel, entry into orbit and descent in a single mission.

Chinese scientists plan to find more evidence of the existence of water or ice on that planet, as well as to conduct research on the composition of material on Mars’ surface or features of the climate.

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