Utopia Planitia
Zhurong · 2021–2022 · on Mars, 25.03° N, 109.93° E
The southern edge of Utopia Planitia, the vast northern lowland where China's Zhurong rover explored and fell silent. Its radar found layers under the surface that may have been laid down by floods or an ancient sea.
What is there
Zhurong (Rover, CNSA)
China's first Mars rover, rolled off the Tianwen-1 landing platform on 22 May 2021. It drove 1.9 km south across Utopia Planitia, looking under the ground with its radar for buried layers left by water. It went into planned hibernation in May 2022 for the dusty winter and never woke: orbiter photos show dust settling on its butterfly-wing solar panels.
Stand at Utopia Planitia in Stellingo: the ground is shaped from orbiter elevation maps and photos, the hardware is placed where it really is, and the sky above — the Sun, the Earth, the stars — is the real one, at any date you choose.