China, UAE Send Probes to Mars
And here in the US, we’re doing what? Oh yeah, waiting for the orange one’s latest tweet. China launches ambitious Tianwen-1 Mars rover missionChina’s first fully homegrown Mars mission is on its way to the Red Planet. The Tianwen-1 mission launched atop a Long March 5 rocket from Hainan Island’s Wenchang Satellite Launch Center this morning (July 23) at 12:41 a.m. EDT (0441 GMT).https://www.livescience.com/china-tianwen-1-mars-mission-launch.html The United Arab Emirates launched a mission to MarsThe United Arab Emirates’ probe Hope is on its way to Mars, marking the first planetary science mission led by an Arab country. A July 19 launch from … Read more