SHANGHAI— China introduced its very first mission to Mars on Thursday, aiming to be part of the brief list of nations that have landed a spacecraft on another earth.
The Tianwen-1 blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the island of Hainan at 12:40 p.m. nearby time aboard the freshly designed Extensive March five rocket. It is expected to make the 34-million mile journey to Mars in 7 months, immediately after which it will try to slip into orbit close to the earth and send out a rover to the surface area.
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