China's first Mars rover starts exploring red planet


BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhua): China's first Mars rover, Zhurong, drove down from its landing platform to the Martian surface on Saturday, leaving the country's first "footprints" on the red planet.

Zhurong's first successful drive made China the second country after the United States to land and operate a rover on Mars.

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