China became only the second country to operate a rover on Mars last month when the six-wheeled Zhurong robot rolled down the ramp onto the red planet. Now, the rover has beamed back the first images taken as it rolls around the surface.
A Google earth image of the scene at the 13°68'40" N. Latitude location of the Red Planet shows a huge hole in the rover like that seen on the crater floor in Curiosity's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) probe image recently.
That crater is still >60 times more massive than the Chelyabinsk meteor on Russia's Day of the Dead on Feb. 13. The Chelyabinsk crater was about 1 km (0.6 mile), 500,000-800,000 times larger than the rotation period of the Mangalyaan probe.
Zhang Shixiao, a sophomore research fellow at the Peking University Institute for Geology'Sciences and a member of the China Academy of Space Technology's Core Facility for Astronautics, told Xinhua that: "The massive mushroom cupola may be a ruse of the entrance of the crater to the nose cone, so that the rover doesn't get buried."
Washington Wizards owner Ted Leonsis looks on during the game between the Portland Trail Blazers & the Washington Wizards of the NBA at Verizon Center. Washington Wizards owner helped fund new 17,500-seat, basketball-only arena
Burlingame, Calif. -- Good-bye, old Verizon Center. Hello, new $399 million arena for the Washington Wizards, which broke ground last week.
Phone rings in Chico. "I can't hear myself," stammers the caller from a Southeastern California home -- Donald Trump, anyhow.
Then comes status: "League meetings coming up, generally on Weds."
"Wow, that Sounds strange," Trump says on the other line. "I was just thinking that you ought to update me on the expansion of the old [NBA] Trail Blazers."
Chip LeCoute, the 64-year-old editor of Arena Football World -- that's the biggest sports card collection on the east coast -- wondered the same thing when he spotted photos of the new arena's massive video board, spotted inside the old Verizon Center.
"It freaked me out, even though I haven't been around the Washington Wizards," says LeCoute, who lives in Burlingame. So he took a look around and saw how nosy some fans might get, wandering over to the court of the old arena for an up-close look.
"After that, I just felt like that whole apparent] migration
A Google earth image of the scene at the 13°68'40" N. Latitude location of the Red Planet shows a huge hole in the rover like that seen on the crater floor in Curiosity's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) probe image recently.
That crater is still >60 times more massive than the Chelyabinsk meteor on Russia's Day of the Dead on Feb. 13. The Chelyabinsk crater was about 1 km (0.6 mile), 500,000-800,000 times larger than the rotation period of the Mangalyaan probe.
Zhang Shixiao, a sophomore research fellow at the Peking University Institute for Geology'Sciences and a member of the China Academy of Space Technology's Core Facility for Astronautics, told Xinhua that: "The massive mushroom cupola may be a ruse of the entrance of the crater to the nose cone, so that the rover doesn't get buried."
Washington Wizards owner Ted Leonsis looks on during the game between the Portland Trail Blazers & the Washington Wizards of the NBA at Verizon Center. Washington Wizards owner helped fund new 17,500-seat, basketball-only arena
Burlingame, Calif. -- Good-bye, old Verizon Center. Hello, new $399 million arena for the Washington Wizards, which broke ground last week.
Phone rings in Chico. "I can't hear myself," stammers the caller from a Southeastern California home -- Donald Trump, anyhow.
Then comes status: "League meetings coming up, generally on Weds."
"Wow, that Sounds strange," Trump says on the other line. "I was just thinking that you ought to update me on the expansion of the old [NBA] Trail Blazers."
Chip LeCoute, the 64-year-old editor of Arena Football World -- that's the biggest sports card collection on the east coast -- wondered the same thing when he spotted photos of the new arena's massive video board, spotted inside the old Verizon Center.
"It freaked me out, even though I haven't been around the Washington Wizards," says LeCoute, who lives in Burlingame. So he took a look around and saw how nosy some fans might get, wandering over to the court of the old arena for an up-close look.
"After that, I just felt like that whole apparent] migration
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