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		</div><p>China’s first Mars rover has driven down from its landing platform and is now roaming the surface of the red planet, Beijing’s space administration said.</p>
<p>The solar-powered rover touched Martian soil at 10.40am Beijing time (3.40am BST), the China National Space Administration revealed.</p>
<p>China landed the spacecraft carrying the rover on Mars last Saturday, a technically challenging feat more difficult than a moon landing, in a first for the country.</p>
<p>It is the second country to do so, after the United States.</p>
<p>Named after the Chinese god of fire, Zhurong, the rover has been running diagnostics tests for several days before it began its exploration on Saturday.</p>
<p>It is expected to be deployed for 90 days to search of evidence of life.</p>
<p>The US also has an ongoing Mars mission, with the Perseverance rover and a tiny helicopter exploring the planet.</p>
<p>Nasa expects the rover to collect its first sample in July for return to Earth in a decade.</p>
<p>China has ambitious space plans that include launching a crewed orbital station and landing a human on the moon.</p>
<p>In 2019, it 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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