07 June 2021
On 7 June, CNSA released a new hi-res image taken by the Tianwen 1 orbiter on 2 June at 18:00 BJT. It shows the Zhourong rover and its lander on the Mars surface. Two bright spots are visible in the upper right corner of the photo. The larger one is the landing platform, and the smaller one is the Zhurong Mars rover. The dark area surrounding the landing platform might be caused by the influence of the engine plume during landing. The symmetrical bright stripes in the north-south direction of the landing platform might be from fine dust when the landing platform emptied the remaining fuel after landing.
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