00:00Notes, or rather the not-quite-so-clear ones.
00:03The third rover that was in the game until recently is Zhurong, China's first Mars rover,
00:08which landed in May 2021 in the Utopia Planitia region,
00:13weighing 240 kilograms with six scientific instruments planned for three Martian months.
00:19Zhurong ultimately drove for 358 Martian days and covered 1,921 meters.
00:28In May 2022, it went into hibernation as scheduled.
00:33It was supposed to wake up in December 2022.
00:36However, it never woke up again.
00:39In April 2023, China officially confirmed that Zhurong likely lost power
00:45due to an excessive buildup of dust on its solar panels.
00:49Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that the rover hasn't moved since September 2022.
00:57Officially, it hasn't been declared dead.
01:00Unofficially, no one expects it to wake up again.
01:03China has learned from this experience.
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