China breaks silence over status of stationary Martian rover FMTNews FMTWorld
The rover was tasked with studying the planet’s surface soil and atmosphere after landing in May 2021.
The motorised rover Zhurong, named after a mythical Chinese god of fire, was expected to have woken up in December after entering a planned sleep mode in May 2022 as falling solar radiation with the advent of winter cut its power generation. A camera on board a NASA probe orbiting Mars showed the Chinese rover had not moved since at least September, according to official images.
Powered by solar energy, Zhurong also looked for signs of ancient life, including any subsurface water and ice, using a ground-penetrating radar.
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