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posted by martyb on Friday July 16 2021, @11:55AM   Printer-friendly

China's Mars rover travels 450 meters on red planet - Xinhua:

China's Mars rover travels 450 meters on red planet

BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) -- China's Mars rover Zhurong has traveled 450 meters on the surface of the red planet, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration on Thursday.

Since the rover landed on the surface of Mars, it has been traveling southward to conduct exploration and inspection activities.

[...] As of Thursday, Zhurong has been operating on the surface of Mars for 60 Martian days. A Martian day is approximately 40 minutes longer than a day on Earth.

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft, consisting of an orbiter, a lander and a rover, was launched on July 23, 2020. The lander carrying the rover touched down in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a vast plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars, on May 15.

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars on 18 February 2021, 20:55 UTC and has traveled 1.44 km (0.89 mi) as of 9 July 2021.

Wikipedia entries for CNSA's Tianwen-1 and NASA's Perseverance.


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  • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @12:37PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @12:37PM (#1156858)

    >> Since the rover landed on the surface of Mars, it has been traveling southward to conduct exploration and inspection activities.

    Colonizing, more likely... hard to make out from the photos, but it's dropping Chinamen every few hundred meters to set up restaurants and laundries.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @01:09PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @01:09PM (#1156866)

      We find racism "funny" now?

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @01:29PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @01:29PM (#1156873)

        not as funny as the "woke" reaction, +1 to you sir

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @02:16PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @02:16PM (#1156894)

        Funnier than the burgers and cowboy hats dropped by the NASA probe

        • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @03:01PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @03:01PM (#1156909)

          You've got it wrong. The NASA rovers are dropping freedom!

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @03:18PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @03:18PM (#1156924)

        Get with the program. Racism doesn't exit, it's a social construct.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @01:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @01:06PM (#1156865)

    I'm looking forward to the day when Zhurong finally tracks down Perseverance and tears that running-dog imperialist robot a new asshole.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @01:11PM (15 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @01:11PM (#1156868)

    Wonder where their space program would be if they had to do their own research.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @01:27PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @01:27PM (#1156872)

      lol yep the Americans pre-stole the great chinese space program

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @03:44PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @03:44PM (#1156933)

      oh fuck the shut up.
      it's not like the technology is cutting edge, you just need money for the rocket. otherwise most countries can build the stupid bot.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @08:14PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @08:14PM (#1157040)

        As long as the bot is made out of papyrus, gunpowder and noodles.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by ElizabethGreene on Friday July 16 2021, @08:12PM (3 children)

      by ElizabethGreene (6748) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 16 2021, @08:12PM (#1157037) Journal

      To assume that China is incapable of innovation is short-sighted and ignorant. If they stick to their 5 year plan they'll pass the US on science spending by 2025. It's a huge country with a massive population and an education system unburdened by a bunch of the stumbling blocks we have here in the US. (non-merit based admissions, high tuition costs, snowflake-ism, etc.)

      An appropriate quote:

      I'm from the future, you should go to China. -Abe, Looper

       

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday July 16 2021, @09:02PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 16 2021, @09:02PM (#1157067) Journal

        China seems great at copying things that they see others successfully doing. Then they do it cheaper. Then they do it better. And cheaper.

        I used to think this was horrible! They didn't obey our intellectual property laws! They don't have enough regulations!

        Now I think maybe they are on to something. They march on while we deal with licensing and a huge backlog of patent lawsuits. And regulations.

        I'm not saying that inventors and creators shouldn't get some kind of compensation for their work. I'm not saying their way is totally better. They also have more fake sellers, shoddy goods, horrible knockoffs, etc.

        I'm not sure what I'm saying. Maybe there is somewhere in between.

        --
        People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @10:29PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @10:29PM (#1157120)

        > snowflake-ism

        This is exactly wrong. Hard slog is a horrible way to teach. Lessons that involve teaching them life is hard are bullshit. It works for about 10% of people, who we call successful and who act like they're the shit, meanwhile it squashes 90% of perfectly good people who never figure out WTF happened. So yeah, slog slog slog, cream off the douchey 10% who never really struggled, and give them authority like they know anything.

        • (Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Sunday July 18 2021, @05:30AM

          by ElizabethGreene (6748) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 18 2021, @05:30AM (#1157495) Journal

          Let me clarify what I meant here. (At least as far as they talk about publicly) China uses strict merit based admissions based on the results of a uniformly administered national exam. They don't depreference specific classes of students [rt.com] in spite of demonstrated academic merit.

          I'm no huge fan of China, but that doesn't mean we can't learn from them.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by fakefuck39 on Friday July 16 2021, @08:15PM (1 child)

      by fakefuck39 (6620) on Friday July 16 2021, @08:15PM (#1157041)

      In 3d animation studios, like it is now. What I find funny is I tried adding a funny link to this post. The one where China sent some people in space on a rocket a few years ago, and mistakenly broadcast the absolutely perfect live launch - crew to mission control conversations et all, an hour before the actual launch. It was all over the news a few years ago. I gave it a google with several different keyword combinations. I scrolled through like 100 results. That news has been completely scrubbed from the internet. So...

      >China's Mars rover travels 450 meters on red planet
      no, the didn't travel 450 meters, in fact, maybe they didn't even make it to the red planet.

      >As of Thursday, Zhurong has been operating on the surface of Mars for 60 Martian days
      no, ZhuWrongDong has not been operating, probably at all, anywhere.

      >China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft, consisting of an orbiter, a lander and a rover
      it probably consisted of an empty rocket, and a combination of blender and 3dsMax

      >from the wiki link: For their Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument, we have delivered a calibration target that is a French duplicate of a target which is on [NASA's] Curiosity [Mars rover].

      now that I believe.

      • (Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Sunday July 18 2021, @05:37AM

        by ElizabethGreene (6748) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 18 2021, @05:37AM (#1157497) Journal

        The Rover, parachute, backshell, and landing plumes have been imaged by the US' Mars reconnaissance rover HiRise instrument. The summary is here. [uahirise.org]

        I can't think of any reason Nasa* would lie about this CSA space project.

        *HiRise is actually administered by the University of Arizona, but NASA handles comms and decoding for the DSN data.

    • (Score: 2) by aliks on Friday July 16 2021, @08:58PM (3 children)

      by aliks (357) on Friday July 16 2021, @08:58PM (#1157065)

      Jealousy must be a horrible emotion . . . . .

      China is following the same tech and infra development path that the US followed in 1820-1920 - emulate, innovate, win.

      --
      To err is human, to comment divine
      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @10:32PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @10:32PM (#1157121)

        Waiting for the "innovate".

        • (Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Sunday July 18 2021, @05:41AM

          by ElizabethGreene (6748) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 18 2021, @05:41AM (#1157499) Journal

          Innovation: They dropped the first rover on the far side of the moon and germinated the first seeds on the moon. Does that count?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @09:30PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 17 2021, @09:30PM (#1157377)

        "The only good Indian is a dead Indian" -Abraham Lincoln
        "The only good Uiyghur is a dead Uiyghur" - Chairman Xi

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday July 16 2021, @09:06PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 16 2021, @09:06PM (#1157069) Journal

      Wonder where their space program would be if they had to do their own research.

      I wonder where our space program would be if we didn't have cost plus contracts, old space companies getting the lion's share of the money, Boeing, SLS, Orion capsule, Starliner capsule, and congress people meddling in the process for political purposes.

      --
      People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @10:35PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 16 2021, @10:35PM (#1157124)

        BINGO! Just imagine what China has under a single party and authoritarian leader for life. The President's brother-in-law, the Chairman's sister, every official down the list must get a finger in the pie.

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