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It was China's first landing on Mars.","sourceUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250806101250/https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2020-049A","sourceLabel":"NASA NSSDCA","kind":"landing"},{"sol":8,"utc":"2021-05-22T12:00:00.000Z","lat":25.083231,"lon":109.908435,"title":"Down the ramp","text":"Telemetry showed Zhurong safely off the landing platform and onto the surface at 10:40 Beijing time on 22 May 2021, which is 02:40 UT. Its survey of the landing area began there, with six instruments to work it.","sourceUrl":"https://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n6759533/c6812046/content.html","sourceLabel":"CNSA","kind":"drive"},{"sol":18,"utc":"2021-06-01T12:00:00.000Z","lat":25.083231,"lon":109.908435,"title":"The portrait on the ground","text":"Zhurong drove to a planned spot, released a small camera onto the ground, reversed back beside the landing platform and then turned side on for a second frame. The camera caught the first video of a rover moving on Mars.","sourceUrl":"http://www.xinhuanet.com/2021-06/27/c_1127602317.htm","sourceLabel":"Xinhua, carrying CNSA","kind":"milestone"},{"sol":45,"utc":"2021-06-29T12:00:00.000Z","lat":25.080144,"lon":109.907407,"title":"Salt cement, and the water that made it","text":"MarSCoDe read bright rocks on sols 32, 43 and 45. The spectra showed hydrated sulphate or silica in a locally developed duricrust, in situ evidence for liquid water in Mars's most recent epoch.","sourceUrl":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9094648/","sourceLabel":"Liu et al., Science Advances","kind":"science"},{"sol":58,"utc":"2021-07-12T12:00:00.000Z","lat":25.077219,"lon":109.906902,"title":"Back to the parachute","text":"Driving south, Zhurong photographed the parachute and the scorched backshell that had carried it down. CNSA said the rover was about 30 m from the backshell and about 350 m from the landing site.","sourceUrl":"https://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n6758823/n6758838/c6812290/content.html","sourceLabel":"CNSA","kind":"drive"},{"sol":91,"utc":"2021-08-15T12:00:00.000Z","lat":25.070615,"lon":109.906601,"title":"Ninety sols, and the survey is done","text":"CNSA said Zhurong had completed its planned survey: 90 sols worked, 889 m driven, about 10 GB of raw data and every payload running. The extended mission would carry it further south, toward the old shoreline.","sourceUrl":"https://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n6758824/n6759009/n6760412/n6760413/c6840376/content.html","sourceLabel":"CNSA","kind":"milestone"},{"sol":99,"utc":"2021-08-23T12:00:00.000Z","lat":25.069361,"lon":109.904993,"title":"A kilometre, on day one hundred","text":"One hundred Earth days after the landing, Zhurong passed 1,000 m of driving. CGTN reported the figure on 23 August 2021, attributing it to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.","sourceUrl":"https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-08-23/China-s-Zhurong-rover-travels-over-1-000-meters-on-Mars-12XHrDFkZfq/index.html","sourceLabel":"CGTN","kind":"milestone"},{"sol":113,"utc":"2021-09-06T12:00:00.000Z","lat":25.067817,"lon":109.907168,"title":"Seventy metres of layers below","text":"Zhurong's radar sounded the ground from sol 11 to sol 113, over about 1,171 m. The profile showed a layered structure roughly 70 m thick under less than 10 m of regolith, and no direct evidence of liquid water in range.","sourceUrl":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05147-5","sourceLabel":"Li et al., Nature","kind":"science"},{"sol":162,"utc":"2021-10-27T12:00:00.000Z","lat":25.067494,"lon":109.907371,"title":"Behind the Sun","text":"Mars passed behind the Sun as seen from Earth and commanding stopped. NASA's spacecraft catalogue records a pause from late September to late October 2021, and the released rover positions do not move across it.","sourceUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250806101250/https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2020-049A","sourceLabel":"NASA NSSDCA","kind":"milestone"},{"sol":186,"utc":"2021-11-20T12:00:00.000Z","lat":25.067092,"lon":109.908584,"title":"A European orbiter takes the call","text":"ESA's Mars Express listened in the blind for Zhurong through November 2021, and the test on 20 November worked. ESA's Gerhard Billig said the Zhurong team confirmed that \"all the data arrived on Earth in very good quality\".","sourceUrl":"https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/A_one-way_phone_call_at_Mars","sourceLabel":"ESA","kind":"milestone"},{"sol":325,"utc":"2022-04-12T12:00:00.000Z","lat":25.060494,"lon":109.91244,"title":"The last fix on the map","text":"The rover positions in the camera labels China released stop here, 23 days short of the last odometer figure. Zhurong kept driving: the radar team records 1,921 m travelled by 5 May 2022.","sourceUrl":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-07034-4","sourceLabel":"Li et al., Scientific Data","kind":"drive"},{"sol":360,"utc":"2022-05-18T12:00:00.000Z","lat":25.060494,"lon":109.91244,"title":"Winter, and no answer since","text":"China's Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center said dust and the winter cold put Zhurong into hibernation on 18 May 2022. It expected the rover back around December, once the landing area reached early spring. It never woke.","sourceUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251205150051/https://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2022/5/479346.shtm","sourceLabel":"CNSA, via CCTV News","kind":"end"}],"current":{"sol":325,"lat":25.060494,"lon":109.91244,"totalM":1896.3,"asOf":"2022-04-12","status":"silent"},"totals":{"odometryM":1896.3,"officialOdometryM":1921,"sols":110,"firstSol":1,"lastSol":325}}