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Utopia Planitia

[ pluh-nee-shuh ]

noun

  1. Astronomy. a plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars that was the landing site of the Viking II space probe on September 3, 1976.


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Zhurong will spend at least three months studying the geology at Utopia Planitia and searching for water ice beneath the surface.

It eventually chose Utopia Planitia, the same region where NASA’s Viking 2 spacecraft landed in 1976.

Utopia Planitia in particular is “a relatively safe place to land and a possible place to find water,” says Wang.

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