The first video captured the landing of the rover, from the opening of the parachute till the touchdown in the Utopia Planitia plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars on May 15. The second, black and white footage was made by the Zhurong on the surface and featured the first …
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Our neighboring planet is a dry, icy desert, but it still has some clouds in its thin atmosphere and they form often enough to affect its climate. Martian clouds differ from what we are used to on Earth, however, where common rain clouds are mostly comprised of suspended water droplets. …
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The start of the new phase of the Tianwen-1 mission was reported on Saturday by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The telemetry data indicates that the Zhurong rover’s wheels touched Martian soil at 10:40am Beijing Time (2:40am GMT), the space agency said. The mission, which was launched in July …
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On Wednesday, the CNSA published two images taken by Zhurong, showing a successful landing on the red planet. The images show the deployment of the landing platform, the rover’s departure ramp, solar wing, antenna and other mechanisms. The rover is carrying out preparations before leaving the landing platform and beginning …
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The name is rather apt given the Chinese word for the red planet is Huoxing (which means “the planet of fire”), but it is also a composite of two other Chinese words, Zhu (meaning “wish”) and Rong (meaning “integration and cooperation”). According to Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the CNSA, …
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The carrier rocket Atlas V (“Atlas-5”) with the Rover Perseverance started on Thursday at 14:50 Moscow time from the cosmodrome on Cape Canaveral in Florida in the United States. The Twitter stream is the American National office for Aeronautics and space research (NASA) on July 30. The research output of …
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The NASA Rover Curiosity in the process of exploration of Gale crater, a vast dry bed of the ancient lake with a hill in the centre, found in the soil residues containing sulfate salt. The presence of these salts suggests that once there was salt lake. The sulfate salt …
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Head of the laboratory of Geochemistry lunar and planetary Geochemistry Russian Academy of Sciences Yevgeny slyuta said that heavy Russian lunar Rover will make the journey of 500 kilometers along the satellite of the earth, exploring “the regional structure”. He will drill several wells, to a depth of 6 metres, …
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On the Board of the automotive unit includes Dyson came from Aston Martin and BMW. Manufacturer of household appliances Dyson has patented the design of his electric car. Judging by the picture, it will be a five-meter seven-passenger crossover with a ground clearance more than the Ranger Rover, and huge …
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A British company has developed a new powertrain technology mild hybrid. Jaguar Land Rover has developed a new engine for the SUV Range Rover 2020. Power unit volume of 3.0 liters with a “mild” hybrid component made its debut on the Range Rover Sport HST, where the maximum power was …
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