China Mars landing: Space agency follows Nasa in its own ‘seven minutes of terror’


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A Chinese spacecraft successfully has landed on Mars , safely getting through its own “seven minutes of terror” and completing a technically challenging descent.Its space agency is now only the second ever to make it through a landing on the red planet , and it serves as a major breakthrough in the country’s ambitions for space exploration.The Zhurong robot – which features six wheels and a variety of scientific instruments for scouring the Martian surface – was carried to the planet by its Tianwen-1 orbiter. That had arrived at the planet in February, and has spent the time since surveying...