Chinese planetary scientists have received the first information regarding the components of the hollow of Mars In an area where the Chinese rover “Zhuzhong” landed, they also discovered traces of deformation of local soil and stones as a result of the influence of water and chemicals in an area called Utopia.
According to the “RT” website, the scientists published the result of their study in the American journal Nature Geosciance, where they said that 60 days to study Mars brought a number of new discoveries, in particular, the photographs of the surface of the nearby stones taken by the rover cameras showed that these stones were exposed to the influence of wind and water .
The Zhuzhong rover is a central component of the Chinese Tianwen-1 mission that launched to the Red Planet in July 2020. In February last year, the rover reached Mars orbit from where it successfully landed on its surface.
After landing the rover and taking the first pictures of the terrain, the mission’s science team, led by Liu Jianjun, a professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing, focused their efforts on studying the interior of Mars where it landed. Within two months of its operation, the rover sent to Earth more than 800 megabytes of information.