The Chinese rover Zhurong sent footage of its descent along with a video of its drive off of the Tianwen-1 landing platform on Sunday.
China’s Mars rover has beamed back its first video and audio from the Red Planet’s Utopia Planitia region. The Chinese rover Zhurong sent footage of its descent — which included deployment of its supersonic disk-gap-band parachute — along with a video of its drive off of the Tianwen-1 landing platform on Sunday, according to Space.com. The latter video included sounds captured by the rover’s climate station, which has a microphone to be used to capture the sounds of martian wind. Here’s the video of its parachute deployment and descent: Huge Zhurong update: Here’s full footage of the Zhurong rover’s EDL, showing parachute deployment, backshell separation, and landing, including very cool hover during hazard avoidance phase. [CNSA/PEC] pic.twitter.com/iWUXrFKf40 Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) June 27, 2021 And here’s the video (with sound) of Zhurong driving off of the lander: Here’s the deployment of Zhurong from the landing platform, but this time with SOUND pic.
