{"id":113144,"date":"2021-05-18T10:46:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T10:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=113144"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:46:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T10:46:31","slug":"zhurong-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/zhurong-rover\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhurong Rover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: which of the following country recently became the second nation after the USA to land a rover successfully on the mars?<\/strong><br>a) Britain<br>b) Japan<br>c) India<br>d) China<br><strong>Answer: (d)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 14 May 2021 China successfully landed its rover upon the surface of the planet Mars.<\/li><li>After several months orbiting Mars, a Chinese rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface.<\/li><li>With this remarkable achievement China became the second nation, after the United States, to achieve a soft landing on the red planet.<\/li><li>The rover, named Zhurong after the Chinese god of fire, is part of China&#8217;s Tianwen-1 mission.<\/li><li>It should be known that Tianwen-1 mission was launched in July 2020.<\/li><li>The landing is a major milestone for China&#8217;s space agency, which has advanced rapidly in just a few decades.<\/li><li>Few details about the Tianwen-1 mission have been made public.<\/li><li>Actually the Chinese Mars probe and its accompanying rover are designed to map the Martian surface and search for signs of life on the planet.<\/li><li>The China National Space Administration said in a statement on 14 May 2021 that the Tianwen-1 spacecraft has functioned normally.<\/li><li>They said that since its launch last year the spacecraft has collected a huge amount of scientific data.<\/li><li> The Zhurong rover landed in a region of Mars known as Utopia Planitia.<\/li><li>Utopia Planitia upon Mars is the vast, icy plain, also where NASA&#8217;s now-defunct Viking 2 lander touched down in 1976.<\/li><li>Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate, congratulated China&#8217;s space agency shortly after the landing was confirmed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/space\/china-becomes-only-second-nation-history-land-rover-mars-n1267410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/space\/china-becomes-only-second-nation-history-land-rover-mars-n1267410<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: which of the following country recently became the second nation after the USA to land a rover successfully on the mars?a) Britainb) Japanc) Indiad) ChinaAnswer: (d)Related Facts:- On 14 May 2021 China successfully landed its rover upon the surface of the planet Mars. After several months orbiting Mars, a Chinese rover successfully touched down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":113145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-113144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113146,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113144\/revisions\/113146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}