People watch from a beach as the Long March 5 Y-4 rocket, carrying an unmanned Mars probe of the Tianwen-1 mission, takes off from Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang, Hainan province, China July 23, 2020. — China Daily pic via Reuters
In 2020, Mars is at its closest to Earth, at a distance of about 55 million km , in a window of about a month that opens once every 26 months. There will be challenges ahead as the craft nears Mars, Liu Tongjie, spokesman for the mission, told reporters ahead of the launch.Liu said the probe would orbit Mars for about two and a half months and look for an opportunity to enter its atmosphere and make a soft landing.Since 1960, half of all the 50-plus missions to Mars including flybys failed, due to technical problems.
The United Arab Emirates launched a mission to Mars on Monday, an orbiter that will study the planet’s atmosphere.The United States may launch a probe as soon as end-July to Mars. It will deploy a rover called Perseverance, the biggest, heaviest, most advanced vehicle sent to the Red Planet by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration .
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