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		</div><p>China’s first Mars rover will be named Zhurong after a traditional fire god, the government announced.</p>
<p>The rover is aboard the Tianwen-1 probe that arrived in Mars orbit on February 24 and is due to land in May to look for evidence of life.</p>
<p>It is part of Chinese space plans that include launching a crewed orbital station and landing a human on the moon.</p>
<p>China in 2019 became the first country to land a space probe on the little-explored far side of the moon and in December returned lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s.</p>
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<p>The rover’s title fits with the Chinese name for Mars — Huo Xing, or fire star, the China National Space Administration said.</p>
<p>The name “signifies igniting the flame of China’s planetary exploration,” a deputy CNSA administrator, Wu Yanhua, was cited by the official Xinhua News Agency as saying.</p>
<figure id="attachment_167731" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-167731" style="width: 574px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CF854B08-A123-4A30-85EE-7B2A1AC9C8B4.jpeg" alt="" width="574" height="568" class="size-full wp-image-167731" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-167731" class="wp-caption-text">Mars (NASA)</figcaption></figure>
<p>The top candidate for the landing site is Utopia Planitia, a rock-strewn plain where the US lander Viking 2 touched down in 1976.</p>
<p>CNSA says Tianwen-1’s goals including analysing and mapping the Martian surface and geology, looking for water ice and studying the climate and surface environment.</p>
<p>China would become the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United States to put a robot rover on Mars.</p>
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