And here in the US, we’re doing what? Oh yeah, waiting for the orange one’s latest tweet.
China launches ambitious Tianwen-1 Mars rover mission
China’s first fully homegrown Mars mission is on its way to the Red Planet. The Tianwen-1 mission launched atop a Long March 5 rocket from Hainan Island’s Wenchang Satellite Launch Center this morning (July 23) at 12:41 a.m. EDT (0441 GMT).
https://www.livescience.com/china-tianwen-1-mars-mission-launch.html
The United Arab Emirates launched a mission to Mars
The United Arab Emirates’ probe Hope is on its way to Mars, marking the first planetary science mission led by an Arab country. A July 19 launch from Japan marked the start of Hope satellite’s journey to Mars. But the project (named Al-Amal in Arabic, which translates to Hope in English) has been underway for six years, since UAE president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan announced the project in July 2014. Hope will orbit the Red Planet, collecting data on its atmosphere in order to offer scientists better information about Mars’s possible life-giving past and more barren present.
https://www.livescience.com/united-arab-emirates-mars-why.html
We here in the US are also about to launch our newest rover, Perserverance next week… And I can assure you I and I am sure many other Americans never read any of tRIO’s tweets!
November cannot come soon enough!