Zhurong and its landing site captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The green specks are the lander and rover.Credit: NASA/JPL/UArizona
China’s Zhurong rover has been snapped by powerful cameras aboard several spacecraft circling Mars. One of the images — a high resolution colour shot (above) taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) — offers scientists an extremely detailed view of the landing site.
“It’s incredible!” says Peter Grindrod, a planetary scientist at the Natural History Museum in London. The image,…
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