People S Republic Of China Launches Its First Independent Mission To Mars
People’s Republic of China Launches its First Independent Mission to Mars China’s largest-ever carrier rocket, the Long March 5 Y-4, was launched at 0441 GMT from Wenchang center, on the southern island of Hainan. In 2020, Mars is at its nearest to Earth, at a distance of about 55 million kilometers. The Mars probe is expected to reach the planet in February where it will try to land in the northern hemisphere in a plain called Utopia Planitia and deploy a rover to search for 90 days....