Last weekend China became the second country, after the US, to successfully land on Mars, a new milestone in the space race of which it offered its first images on Wednesday.

The Tianwen-1 mission accomplished the very difficult task of landing on the surface of the red planet and deploying a robot, christened Zhurong.

The Chinese space agency, CNSA, published today on its website two images and two short videos of the descent to Utopia Planitia, the place chosen for its first Martian expedition.

The plan that this six-wheeler works for 90 Martian days (just over three Earth months).

Throughout space history, approximately half of the ships sent to Mars have failed to reach its surface safely and only the US has managed to complete controlled robot landings.

The last to achieve this have been the

Perseverance

robotic vehicle (

rover

), and the small

Ingenuity

helicopter

that was traveling attached to it, and that last February landed without incident on Mars.

CNSA

On April 29, China achieved another important step in its ambitious space program by launching the first component of its future great space station, called Tiangon (Celestial Palace).

A part of the Long March-5B rocket that put it into orbit returned to Earth in an uncontrolled way on May 9 after several days of uncertainty about where debris that was not destroyed during reentry into the atmosphere could impact.

Fortunately, they hit the Indian Ocean, but the incident gave rise to some criticism for the risk that they had fallen into an inhabited area.

Thus, the Secretary of Defense of the United States, Lloyd Austin, demanded that the actors who carry out space activities do so "safely."

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