"Zhurong" takes you to see "Huoyan", "huochen", "huosha"

Beijing, July 9 (Zhao Zhuqing) - as of July 8, the Mars Rover "zhurong" has been working on the surface of Mars for 54 Mars days with a mileage of more than 300 meters, according to the official wechat message of China's lunar exploration project. Since the Mars rover arrived on the surface of Mars, it has been traveling southward to carry out patrol exploration. The navigation Terrain Camera images the landforms along the way every day. During the journey, the subsurface radar, weather measuring instrument and Mars magnetometer are turned on for exploration. When encountering rocks, sand dunes and other special landforms on the way, the surface composition detector and multispectral camera are used to carry out fixed-point exploration.

The images of Martian rocks taken on the road are composed of multi spectral data obtained by multispectral camera. In the images, we can see the texture features of Martian rocks, the ruts of Mars rover, and the coverage of Martian dust on the rock surface.

In the image of Mars rocks, we can see the texture features of Mars rocks and the ruts of Mars rover. Picture provided by National Space Administration

Martian rocks and dust show the coverage of Martian dust on the surface of rocks. Picture provided by National Space Administration

On June 26 (the 42nd Mars day), the rover arrived at a sand dune area and took a high-resolution image of the red sand dune using the navigation Terrain Camera (Fig. 3). The shooting point was about 6 meters away from the sand dune, surrounded by stones of different sizes, of which the stone facing the rover was about 0.34 meters wide.

On July 4 (the 50th Mars day), the rover drove to the south side of the sand dunes and sensed and imaged the surrounding landform. The whole picture of the sand dunes can be seen in Figure 4, which is about 40 meters long, 8 meters wide and 0.6 meters high. In Figure 5, a cluster of stones with different shapes is shown on the left, and the back cover and parachute can be seen in the upper right corner. During the imaging, the linear distance between the rover and the landing point is about 210 meters, and the distance between the rover and the back cover and parachute is about 130 meters.