It turns out that there is also a Zhu Rong on Earth: all verification has been completed before the Mars exploration mission

IT House January 3 news, as we all know, Mars has been studied by humans for so many years, but still can not be fully predicted in real time. So how exactly do we ensure that the Mars rover completes its mission? According to CCTV, in the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Group, there lives an "older brother" who is two years older than the Mars rover Zhu Rong.

According to reports, before the official implementation of the Mars exploration mission, the "brother" has completed all the verifications on the earth for the "ZhuRong", including landing, traveling, obstacle crossing and other tests, and cleared the obstacles of the Mars journey for the "younger brother".

IT Home learned that Tianwen-1 was launched from The Wenchang Cosmodrome in Hainan at 12:41 on July 23, 2020 by the Long March 5 Yao-4 carrier rocket and entered Mars orbit on February 10, 2021.

China's first Mars exploration mission successfully landed on Mars on May 15, 2021. The "Zhurong" rover has operated on the surface of Mars for more than 200 Martian days, with a cumulative driving of about 1300 meters, and the two are in good condition. Scientific exploration will continue in the future.