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First rover to reach Mars. Lost when Mars 2 landing system crash landed on Mars. Mars 3: PrOP-M: USSR: 2 December 1971: First rover to successfully land on Mars. The lander stopped communicating about 110 seconds after landing, before the rover was deployed. Mars Pathfinder: Sojourner: NASA: 4 July 1997
Zhurong (Chinese: 祝融; pinyin: Zhùróng) is a Chinese rover on Mars, the country's first to land on another planet after it previously landed two rovers on the Moon.The rover is part of the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars conducted by the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
MINERVA-II Rover-1A and Rover-1B, deployed successfully and returned data from the surface. France / Germany: 3 October 2018: MASCOT rover, deployed successfully and returned data from the surface. Japan: 21 February 2019: Hayabusa2 first touchdown. Successfully collected sample from the surface. Sample returned to Earth on 5 December 2020. 5 ...
The rover drivers at JPL, who send instructions to Curiosity, did a 90-degree turn to put the robotic explorer in the right position for its cameras to capture a mosaic of the surrounding landscape.
The Perseverance rover has found evidence in a leopard-spotted rock that could suggest microbial life ... It is the hope of NASA leadership to return the samples to Earth by the 2030s with less ...
On May 14, 2021, China became the second country to ever deploy a rover on the Martian surface. Named Zhurong after the ancient Chinese god of fire, the rover landed on Mars’ Utopia Planitia ...
The first rover has direct-to-Earth communication. The second rover is designed to change its shape to traverse around the landing site over a short lifespan of two hours. SLIM was launched on September 6, 2023, and reached lunar orbit on 25 December 2023.
The Perseverance rover took a 360-degree mosaic comprising 993 images and 2.38 billion pixels from a location dubbed "Airey Hill" in November.