[ASTRONOMIA] ¨ Tianwen-1 Mission to Mars

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image credit & copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN)




on july 23, this Long March 5 heavy-lift rocket rose into a blue morning sky from China's Hainan Island Wenchang Satellite Launch Center

the rocket carried an orbiter, lander, and rover to ask Heavenly Questions on the ambitious Tianwen-1 mission to Mars

in fact Tianwen-1 was the second of three missions scheduled for a july departure to the Red Planet

the United Arab Emirates launched its Amal (Hope) Mars probe on july 19

NASA launched its Mars Perseverance Rover from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA on july 30

this was the last planned Mars launch for 2020 though

the minimum-energy launch window for an expedition to Mars come to a close in 2020 and will reopen in 2022




















































in apod.nasa.gov/apod