Zhurongs don't make a right and suggest the mission may not have survived winter
China’s Zhurong Mars rover may be struggling to emerge from sleep mode, a feat it was expected to accomplish around December 26th.on the red planet. The rover has been waiting for Mars' winter and attendant sandstorms and winter to pass before resuming its exploration of the red planet.claims two sources have asserted the rover should have resumed running by now but has not re-established contact with mission control.
The news outlet claims claimed one source speculated that Mars’ winter storms have reduced Zhurong's ability to generate power by coating its solar panels with dust.as dust means less light reaches solar panels, and we know such problems have done in other Mars probes.webpage, solar is the only source of energy for the rover. Zhurong has four butterfly-shaped panels to provide that energy.
That autonomous awakening was set to occur when simultaneously the power level hit 140 watts and the temperature of key components rose above 15˚C.
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