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China lands unmanned spacecraft on Mars for first time
State-run media says landing ‘spectacularly conquered’ a new milestone; it joins US Perseverance rover which landed in February
An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported, making China the second space-faring nation after the United States to land on the Red Planet.
The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on a site on a vast plain known as Utopia Planitia, “leaving a Chinese footprint on Mars for the first time,” Xinhua said.