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China's Mars spacecraft has photographed the entire red planet, state media says
China's space agency released sharp images, revealing Mars craters, a volcano, and a canyon that's …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's Mars rover has beamed back its first images of the red planet
China landed its Zhurong rover on Mars Saturday. After taking photos, the rover will start scanning…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time, delivering a water-hunting rover to the red planet
The Zhurong rover is almost ready to start scanning Mars' volcanic-rock fields for hidden water ice…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China plans to attempt an ambitious Mars landing as early as Friday, dropping both a lander and a rover to the red planet
China's Tianwen-1 mission could be the first to deploy an orbiter, lander, and rover all at once. B…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's ambitious Tianwen-1 Mars mission - involving an orbiter, lander, and rover - just reached the red planet
China is the sixth nation ever to reach Mars. It could soon become the third to successfully land a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's new Mars probe took its first photo of the red planet as the mission prepares to make history
Tianwen-1 is the first Mars mission with an orbiter, lander, and rover in one expedition. It's desi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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3 spacecraft are set to reach Mars this month, from NASA, China, and the UAE. Here's what they aim to learn.
NASA is bringing a helicopter, and China aims to deploy an orbiter, lander, and rover from just one…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China just launched an ambitious Mars mission that could be its first to reach the red planet — and make it just the third nation to explore the Martian surface
The Tianwen-1 orbiter, lander, and rover mission successfully launched on a Long March 5 rocket Thu…
Dave Mosher
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The United Arab Emirates launched a mission to Mars on Sunday. NASA and China are about to follow with their own rovers, an orbiter, and a helicopter.
NASA is planning to send its fifth rover to the red planet. China and the UAE have never been to Ma…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China says its first Mars landing - of both a lander and a rover - is happening as early as Saturday
China's National Space Administration said its Tianwen-1 spacecraft is expected to land on Mars bet…
Sinéad Baker
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China's Mars rover has made its first tracks on the red planet
On May 15, China's Zhurong rover landed on Mars. The rover just left its landing pad and completed …
Aylin Woodward
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China plans to land its Chang'e 6 lunar lander by 2024. An asteroid defense system could also be on the way.
China's rover projects are gaining traction, while the country mulls a possible system to protect a…
Zahra Tayeb
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China launches first Mars mission
Beijing, Jul 23 () China successfully launched its first Mars probe on Thursday from the Wenchang S…
PTI
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The United Arab Emirates' Mars probe just entered orbit around the red planet, the first in a Mars-mission bonanza
The UAE's first interplanetary mission could help solve the mystery of what happened to the Martian…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The United Arab Emirates has released its first Mars photo, taken by the Hope Probe. It comes as NASA's rover approaches its descent on the red planet.
The UAE Space Agency on Sunday published its first photograph of Mars during a mission that became …
Kevin Shalvey
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China is set to launch the first piece of its new space station on Wednesday night
China can't send its astronauts to the International Space Station, so it's building its own Earth-…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's new space carrier rocket successfully launches five satellites on its maiden flight
The rocket fills the gap in China's launch capability to the sun-synchronous orbit from 3 …
PTI
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The Hope Probe is on its way to Mars — everything you need to know about the UAE’s first jump into interplanetary space
Mission Hope — or the Hope Probe — isn’t just the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first bout in interpl…
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Space 2021: All the Mars landings, eclipses, astronaut flights, rocket launches, and other big missions to look for this year
In 2021, we'll see nine meteor showers. Boeing and SpaceX should launch humans into orbit, and NASA…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
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Watch NASA launch Perseverance, the space agency's alien-hunting car-size Mars rover, to the red planet
On Thursday at 7:50 a.m. ET, NASA launched its fifth Mars rover, Perseverance, aboard an Atlas V ro…