Infographic: what you need to know about China's Mars mission

On May 15, 2021, China's Tianwen-1 probe successfully touched down on the Utopia Planitia of on Mars, making it the third country in the world to land a rover on the Red Planet. It marks a milestone for China's planetary exploration of the solar system.

On May 22, the Zhurong rover drove down the ramp of its landing capsule and began its mobile mission on Mars. During its journey of at least 90 Martian days, Zhurong will record the Martian landscape with high-resolution three-dimensional images, analyze the material composition of the planet's surface, detect its sub-surface structure and magnetic field, search for traces of water ice and observe the surrounding meteorological environment.