China Blasts Off on Lengthy March to Peep Existence on Mars

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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