(May 14, 2021 at 11:36 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: The Chinese Mars probe Tianwen-1 successfully detached a lander bearing the rover named Zhurong to soft land on Utopia Planitia, inside Mars’ northern lowlands. This makes China the third country to successfully soft land a probe on Mars, the second to land a rover on Mars, but the first to successfully do either on its very first try.
As yet, the rover is still sitting on the lander. Whether the rover will successful drive itself off the lander onto Martian surface and start roving is yet to be seen.
Pretty impressive. Don't you mean the first landing about which China has told us? How many failures have they had, and is this actually the first?
I seem to have read somewhere, about another totalitarian government in the space race. I of course refer to the USSR. It seems they sent several craft up with animals before success. Also Yuri Gagarin was in fact the first Soviet Cosmonaut to survive.
Be fascinated to learn such state secrets about North Korea. It'll probably come out at some point, but probably not within my lifetime.
