China's Zhurong Mars Rover Photographed these Images | Tianwen-1 | First Image of Zhurong Mars Rover

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China's Zhurong Mars Rover Photographed these Images | Tianwen-1 | First Image of Zhurong Mars Rover. A rear camera on China’s Zhurong rover looks back at its landing platform after driving onto the Martian surface on May 21. The Chinese solar-powered Zhurong rover has driven onto the surface of Mars, making China the second nation to operate a mobile robot on another planet. The six-wheel rover rode to the Red Planet on a landing platform that successfully landed May 14, a few hours after detachment from China’s Tianwen 1 spacecraft in orbit around Mars. Zhurong sends back signals, marking the success of Tianwen-1’s landing on Mars. Tianwen-1, China’s first interplanetary expedition, has spectacularly conquered a new major milestone, with its lander-rover combination successfully soft-landing at the planned site in the southern part of a vast plain known as Utopia Planitia on Mars on early Saturday morning. China's Mars rover drove from its landing platform and began exploring the surface on Saturday, state-run Xinhua news agency said, making the country only the second nation to land and operate a rover on the Red Planet. The launch last July of the Tianwen-1 Mars probe, which carried the Zhurong rover, marked a major milestone in China's space program. Tianwen-1 touched down on a vast northern lava plain known as the Utopia Planitia a week ago and beamed back its first photos of the surface a few days later.