18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
... be interesting to watch as China attempts this as well,” said Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division. China’s Tianwen-1 mission this summer includes a rover, while the United Arab Emirates is preparing to launch its Hope probe...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
... to temperatures as low as minus 90 degrees Celsius (minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit) at Jezero Crater. Like the two missions, Tianwen-1 and the UAE’s Hope mission, that lifted off ahead of Perseverance, NASA’s mission will also reach...
11 June 2021
China unveils new Mars images, and prepares to launch first astronauts to space station
Its a busy week for China as the nation not only releases its first pictures of Mars taken by Zhurong, the country's first martian rover, but also gears up to send three astronauts to its orbiting space station in the coming days. At a ceremony in ...
29 July 2020
Mars 2020 mission, Perseverance rover 'go for launch,' says NASA
... to embark on a mission to the Red Planet this month. China launched its mission to Mars last week named Tianwen-1 ("Questions to Heaven"). If China's mission succeeds, it will become only the second nation after the United States...
