A 21st century space race is heating up this month as China and the United States launch missions to Mars. China launched its mission to Mars on Thursday in an attempt to become the second country to successfully land on the Red Planet behind the United States. Exactly a week …
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NASA plans to launch its last mission to Mars this month, which aims to place the Perseverance rover on the planet’s surface in February 2021. It is the latest attempt to explore a planet that has spanned the popular imagination for centuries. Like the planetary scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson, author …
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Mars and the moon may be the next out-of-this-world neighborhoods for Americans someday, possibly in the next 10 years. The Department of Energy wants the private sector to build nuclear power plants that allow us to live in the harsh conditions of the red plant and the orb of the …
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A powerful Long March 5 rocket took off Thursday with a Chinese orbiter, lander, and rover on a seven-month trip to Mars, the second of three high-risk missions on the Red Planet and one that, if successful, It will put China on the front lines of interplanetary exploration. China did …
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A powerful Long March 5 rocket took off Thursday with a Chinese orbiter, lander, and rover on a seven-month trip to Mars, the second of three high-risk missions on the Red Planet and one that, if successful, It will put China on the front lines of interplanetary exploration. China did …
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