China has landed on Mars for the first time. The landing module of the Chinese spacecraft „Tianwen-1“ touched down this morning with the rover „Zhurong“ on board on the surface of the Red Planet, as the state news agency Xinhua reported, citing the space agency.
The Chinese mission is one of three flights to Mars that took off from Earth last summer. The United Arab Emirates and the USA had also sent rockets towards Mars at that time. The US rover „Perseverance“ landed in February.
So far, only the US has managed to deploy reconnaissance vehicles on the Red Planet. The Soviet Union landed in the 1970s, but contact with the probe was immediately lost.
