Mars mission would put China among space leaders

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/mars-mission-would-put-china-among-space-leaders

Source:  By Dennis Normile, Science Magazine. 

Excerpt: NASA’s Perseverance rover may have company on the Red Planet. China aims to leap to the front ranks in planetary exploration with an ambitious Mars mission, its first independent bid to reach the planet. Tianwen-1—“quest for heavenly truth”—consists of not only an orbiter, but also a lander and a rover, a trifecta no other nation has accomplished on its first Mars bid. “A successful landing would put China among elite company,” says Mason Peck, an aerospace engineer at Cornell University....

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