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China’s 1st Mars rover and Tianwen 1 orbiter may have gone silent: report

Something may have gone very wrong for China’s first-ever Mars mission.

China launched Tianwen 1 in July 2020 and the mission’s rover, named Zhurong, touched down on the Red Planet in May 2021. The duo explored Mars smoothly until May 2022, when Zhurong was put into hibernation, hunkering down for the harsh winter.

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