
China says its Mars rover could land this weekend
CNN
Beijing says its Tianwen-1 probe could land on Mars as soon as Saturday. That would make China the second country behind the United States to land and operate a rover on the red planet.
Beijing's Tianwen-1 Mars probe is expected to land on the red planet in the coming days, as early as Saturday morning (Friday night Eastern time), according to China's space agency. The landing window extends until Wednesday. The unmanned Tianwen-1, China's first mission to Mars, launched in July 2020 on the 465-million-kilometer journey to reach the planet. The spacecraft entered the Martian orbit in February and sent back its first photo of the planet from more than a million kilometers away.
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