The landing of China's rover Zhurong on Mars shows China has made great progress in space exploration.

火星登陆车“祝融号”在火星的着陆表明中国在太空探索方面取得了巨大进展。

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Tianwen I probe sent the first picture of Mars back to China in February, 2021.

2021年2月，天问一号探测器把第一张火星的照片送回了中国。

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China has named the nation's first Mars rover Zhu Rong.

中国将首个火星探测器命名为祝融号。

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The mission is also notable because China's first Mars satellite, Yinghuo-1, has been launched piggy-back on the main Russian spacecraft.

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The U.S. perfect it with putting a man on the man, then with a series of modern high tech space shuttle missions and Mars ROVERS. But now, the final frontier captains are more likely to be Russians, with their hopes for a human Mars landing someday, or Chinese, with a new China space station due within the next 8 years.

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Other countries that have launched missions to Mars include the U.S., Russia, Japan and China.

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