China releases footage from its Mars rover

China's National Space Administration has released footage captured by the country's Mars probe. The videos and photos taken by the camera installed on the Zhurong rover of the Tianwen-1 spacecraft show the lander deploying a parachute before touching down on the surface of Mars and the rover driving away from its landing platform. State broadcaster CCTV said Zhurong had been working on the red planet for 42 days and had moved 236 metres so far.

[skmysterion]

Wow, I hope science is stronger than any political bs.... A great achievement anyways 😅

[kirsakaboom-]

Science is advancing so much nowadays it’s amazing

[ScallopHolden]

0:47 these sounds were kind of like the movie mission to Mars where they had to play the right sound to open the face

[psuser]

Why did China release actual footage but America didn’t?

[nileshbhattacharya]

Congratulations to CNSA and the people's republic of China. Grand salute to astronomer and the scientists.
Lot's of love and huge respect for China from India 🙏
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[kumarsaurav]

M from india .. congrats china for a great achievement

[johnmurrey]

Any footage from yesterday in London dear Guardian?

[cars]

To my knowledge Russia landed and operated (if briefly) a spacecraft on Mars in the 70s. Counting that might be worth considering.

[IAN-xeye]

Arnold Schwarzenegger was there years ago.

[hshrestha]

There was a lot of hype around NASA's Perseverance rover. But this did not get much media attention.

[danhub]

There is only one real Mars and that's the factory in Slough 🇬🇧

[mhopkins]

China has a Mars Rover?!?? When did that happen?!!? 😲

[rubbercable]

It's gonna be that last episode in SpaceForce with SteveCarrell (TLDR - both teams die)

[chrismofer]

Awesome videos, bravo engineering teams

[lightnentim]

Mars Pathfinder was a U.S. spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars on July 4, 1997. It consisted of a lander and a small 10.6 kilograms (23 lb) wheeled robotic rover named Sojourner, which was the first rover to operate on the surface of Mars.

[MikeyJebediah]

Why is this footage so much better than all their moon rover footage?

[soyaa]

ଆମେ ଭାରତୀୟ ବି ଆସୁଛୁ ଖୁବ ଶୀଘ୍ର ମଙ୍ଗଳ ଗ୍ରହ କୁ. ଜୟ ଶ୍ରୀ ରାମ ❤️

[JohnSmith-pnit]

Way to go Guardian...now you REALLY have NO credibility. NO ONE has landed so much as a nut or bolt on Mars and anyone with critical thinking ability KNOWS IT and WHY.

[abcd-xrbk]

It was the soviet mars probe pioneered in mars landing ( mars 3 ) aboard the rover prop m, second is united states' mars viking lander 1 & 2 ( w/o rover ), china runs on the 3rd with its zhurong rover..

[lamrof]

US claimed the Monroe Doctrine of this North western region of Mars. :-)