Three nations are taking aim at the Red Planet this month.
Three spacecraft from NASA, China and the UAE are heading to Mars this month.this month -- commencing a new, deep space race to explore the Red Planet.
A handout photo made available by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shows an H2-A rocket carrying 'Hope', a spacecraft developed by the United Arab Emirates, taking off from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, July 20, 2020. Engineers observe the first driving test for NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on Dec. 17, 2019.
The UAE mission is sending an orbiter, which won't land, Logsdon added, saying,"It's done in collaboration with the University of Colorado; the UAE. is overseeing the mission, but there is a lot of U.S. contribution." It is history-making in the sense, however, that it is the first time an Arab nation has launched into deep space.
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