{"id":1010484,"date":"2021-04-29T12:57:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T16:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/meet-zhurong-china-names-tianwen-1-mars-rover-ahead-of-mid-may-landing-attempt-space-com\/"},"modified":"2021-04-29T12:57:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T16:57:39","slug":"meet-zhurong-china-names-tianwen-1-mars-rover-ahead-of-mid-may-landing-attempt-space-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/mars\/meet-zhurong-china-names-tianwen-1-mars-rover-ahead-of-mid-may-landing-attempt-space-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet &#8216;Zhurong&#8217;: China names Tianwen-1 Mars rover ahead of mid-May landing attempt &#8211; Space.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>China has named its first-ever Mars rover \"Zhurong\" after an ancient fire god ahead of a landing attempt on the Red Planet in May.<\/p>\n<p>The China National Space Administration (CNSA) revealed the name at the sixth China Space Day held in Nanjing on Saturday (April 24).<\/p>\n<p>Zhurong was the most popular of 10 shortlisted names for a public vote that opened in January, and that choice was backed by an expert panel and the CNSA itself.<\/p>\n<p>Related: The latest news about China's space program<\/p>\n<p>Going with the fire god is apt, for the Chinese name for Mars, \"Huoxing,\" literally means \"fire star.\"<\/p>\n<p>The roughly 530-lb. (240 kilograms) solar-powered Zhurong rover is part of the Tianwen-1 mission, which launched in July 2020 and arrived in orbit around Mars in February.<\/p>\n<p>The Tianwen-1 orbiter has been collecting high-resolution images of Zhurongs target landing site in Utopia Planitia. The landing attempt is expected in mid-May, according to a senior Chinese space scientist.<\/p>\n<p>The rover carries panoramic and multispectral cameras and instruments to analyze the composition of rocks. Zhurong will also investigate subsurface characteristics with ground-penetrating radar, if all goes according to plan.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/china-tianwen-1-mars-rover-named-zhurong\" title=\"Meet 'Zhurong': China names Tianwen-1 Mars rover ahead of mid-May landing attempt - Space.com\">Meet 'Zhurong': China names Tianwen-1 Mars rover ahead of mid-May landing attempt - Space.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> China has named its first-ever Mars rover \"Zhurong\" after an ancient fire god ahead of a landing attempt on the Red Planet in May.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/mars\/meet-zhurong-china-names-tianwen-1-mars-rover-ahead-of-mid-may-landing-attempt-space-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450966],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}