In 2021, China becomes the third country to safely land a rover on Mars – SCMP archive

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Beijing joins Mars club after ‘nine minutes of ter­ror’By William ZhengThis article was first published on May 16, 2021After seven months of space travel, three months in orbit and “nine minutes of ter­ror”, China has become the third coun­try in the world to safely land a rover on Mars.The China National Space Admin­is­tra­tion (CNSA) said its rover Zhu Rong – named after the Chinese god of fire and war – suc­cess­fully landed on Mars yes­ter­day after “nine minutes of ter­ror”, refer­ring...