OPINION – Mars SAR | Macau Business

OPINION - Mars SAR By Nelson Moura It might have passed a bit under the radar but this week Chinese and space exploration history was made. On Friday, China successfully landed a spacecraft on Mars, becoming only the second country, after the US, to successfully send missions to the Red Planet. A six-wheeled robot named Zhurong, after the Chinese god of fire, safely surpassed the famous 'seven minutes of terror' entering Mars' atmosphere and landing in the Utopia Planitia, a vast terrain in the northern hemisphere, using a combination of a protective capsule, a parachute and a rocket platform. The…