The mission carried out a historic first-ever combined orbiting, landing and roving in a single launch.
The 530-pound solar-powered rover is currently expected to wake up and resume activities in December or January, when more solar energy reaches Mars, a mission team member said during a question and answer session.
China is also looking to follow up its Mars success with an ambitious mission to collect samples from Mars and deliver them to Earth. The mission is named Tianwen 3 and will involve a pair of 5 launches — China's largest rocket — around 2028 to send landing and orbiter spacecraft to the Red Planet.
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