China’s Zhurong Mars rover goes silent, no movement detected for 5 months

China’s Zhurong Mars rover goes silent, no movement detected for 5 months

Zhurong Mars rover of China’s first independent interplanetary exploration expedition has gone silent as images captured by Nasa orbiter shows it has not moved on the Red Planet’ surface for five months. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera atop the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which is frequently used to observe changes to dust-covered … Read more