China’s First Mars Mission, Tianwen-1, Reaches the Red Planet

China’s First Mars Mission, Tianwen-1, Reaches the Red Planet

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-first-mars-mission-tianwen-1-reaches-the-red-planet/

The nation’s first fully homegrown Mars mission, Tianwen-1, arrived in orbit around the Red Planet today (Feb. 10), according to Chinese media reports.

The milestone makes China the sixth entity to get a probe to Mars, joining the United States, the Soviet Union, the European Space Agency, India and the United Arab Emirates, whose Hope orbiter made it to the Red Planet just yesterday (Feb. 9).