The director of NASA took a photo of the Zhu Rong and asked the United States for money

On the 19th, the China National Space Administration released the images taken by the Zhurong Mars rover during the landing process of the first Mars exploration mission Tianwen-1 probe.

On the 19th local time, Bill Nelson, the new director of NASA, sent congratulations through NASA's official and personal social media accounts. He wrote on his Twitter: "Congratulations to the Chinese National Space Administration for receiving the first images from the Zhurong Mars rover! As the number of robotic probes launched to Mars by the international scientific community continues to increase, the United States and other countries around the world are expecting Zhu Rong's new discoveries to advance human understanding of the Red Planet. ”

It is worth mentioning that shortly after the release of this tweet, the Us "Washington Post" reporter Christian Davenport's Twitter posted a video screenshot of Nelson showing the photo of the Zhurong Mars rover at the US Senate 2022 fiscal year budget proposal meeting on the 19th. Davenport tweeted that NASA Director Nelson showed photos of the Chinese Mars rover and said China was pushing to reach the moon's south pole. Nelson said this makes the U.S. "take seriously and invest heavily in the lunar landing program to achieve a human 'return to the moon.'"

According to the CBS website, the day was Nelson's first congressional hearing since taking office. The hearing was to discuss the Biden administration's preliminary budget for the next fiscal year, which includes NASA's $24.7 billion budget requirement for 2022, which is a 6 percent increase over 2021. Of the increases, the largest was the Artemis moon landing.

At the video hearing, Nelson showed off the first photos of the Zhurong rover as evidence of "new advances in China's spaceflight" and talked about concerns about the progress of China's space program and the U.S. lunar landing program Artemis. (Kefan)

Source: Reference News Network