SHANGHAI— China launched its first mission to Mars on Thursday, aiming to join the short list of worldwide locations that possess landed a spacecraft on one other planet.
The Tianwen-1 blasted off from the Wenchang Space Open Heart on the island of Hainan at 12: 40 p.m. native time aboard the newly developed Lengthy March 5 rocket. It is expected to contain the 34-million-mile lope to Mars in seven months, after which this would possibly per chance increasingly try and bolt into orbit spherical the planet and send a rover to the surface.
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