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Tianwen-1 is expected to make a landing attempt on the Red Planet some time between May and June. The global campaign to name the rover ...
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Tianwen-1 is expected to make a landing attempt on the Red Planet some time between May and June.
The global campaign to name the rover kicked off in July 2020. Netizens from all over the world were invited to vote for their favorite out of 10 candidates from January 20 to February 28. Last month, three possible names emerged, with "Zhurong," the fire god in ancient Chinese mythology, topping the list, Global Times previously reported.
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Zhurong (Chinese: 祝融), also known as Chongli (Chinese: 重黎), is an important personage in Chinese mythology and Chinese folk religion. According to the Huainanzi and the philosophical texts of Mozi and his followers, Zhurong is a god of fire and of the south.[citation needed] The Shanhaijing gives alternative genealogies for Zhurong, including descent from both the Yan Emperor and Yellow Emperor.[1] Some sources associate Zhurong with some of the principal early and ancient myths of China, such as those of Nüwa (Nüwa Mends the Heavens), Gonggong, and the Great Flood.[2]
One aspect of the traditional Chinese characters used in the case of Zhurong's name is that the character 融 is composed by combining the character 鬲 (lì) which refers to a ritual cauldron or tripodal vessel with three hollow legs, which is well known from archeological reports as a characteristic Chalcolithic (Late Neolithic/Early Bronze) Age feature encountered in archaeological sites in northern China. This character is combined with another character, 虫; which, in the case of certain other complex characters is used productively to represent words with meanings related to worms, snakes, or insects. David Hawkes makes a case for the use of the lì radical in Zhurong's name as being significant in terms of culture and ceramic technology in relationship to the Chuci material.
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A solar cauldron no less!
Jul. 24, 2019 — Current plans are to have the spherical cauldron, which will be lit at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, .
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Apr. 15, 2021 — Currently exploring the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto, New Horizons is just one of five spacecraft to reach 50 astronomical units – 50 times the ..
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The first flight on another world from the Martian lake of fire:
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& khufu ship
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6 days ago — Egypt will impound the giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal last month until its Japanese owner pays $900m (£652m) in compensation. One of the Ever Given's insurers, UK Club, said the Suez Canal Authority had rejected its offer to settle the claim.
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On may 10th Osiris Rex departs Bennu for the landing spot of Genesis in the Utah desert. Between Mid May and June Tianwen 1 lands near the Amenthes/Duat region of Mars. Then the tianwen mission will transition focus on the rover likely named after a fire god or phoenix/fire-bird. Around mid May the Olympic torch should be in the Nagasaki region which is another component of Tokyo 2020 rarely discussed. Another fire torch for 2022 is already in play as well since Beijing unveiled the winter Olympic torch in February making for a busy torch handover ceremony for the fall of 2021 with the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic torch followed by the lighting of the Beijing torch..
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