{"id":32730,"date":"2020-07-23T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/china-launches-mars-probe-in-space-race-with-us\/"},"modified":"2020-07-23T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T07:02:00","slug":"china-launches-mars-probe-in-space-race-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/china-launches-mars-probe-in-space-race-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"#China launches Mars probe in space race with US"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#China launches Mars probe in space race with US<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n China’s ambitious Tianwen-1 Mars mission lifted off from the southern island of Hainan
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China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space.<\/p>\n

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The two countries are taking advantage of a period when Earth and Mars are favourably aligned for a short journey, with the US spacecraft due to lift off on July 30.<\/p>\n

The Chinese mission is named Tianwen-1 (“Questions to Heaven”)\u2014a nod to a classical poem that has verses about the cosmos.
\nEngineers and other employees cheered at the launch site on the southern island of Hainan as it lifted off into blue sky aboard a Long March 5\u2014China’s biggest space rocket.
\nSite commander Zhang Xueyu declared the mission a success on state broadcaster CCTV.
\nThe five-tonne Tianwen-1 is expected to arrive in February 2021 after a seven-month, 55-million-kilometre (34-million-mile) voyage.
\nThe mission includes a Mars orbiter, a lander and a rover that will study the planet’s soil.
\n“As a first try for China, I don’t expect it to do anything significant beyond what the US has already done,” said Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
\nIt is a crowded field. The United Arab Emirates launched a probe on Monday that will orbit Mars once it reaches the Red Planet.<\/p>\n

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But the race to watch is between the United States and China, which has worked furiously to try and match Washington’s supremacy in space.
\nNASA, the American space agency, has already sent four rovers to Mars since the late 1990s.
\nThe next one, Perseverance, is an SUV-sized vehicle that will look for signs of ancient microbial life, and gather rock and soil samples with the goal of bringing them back to Earth on another mission in 2031.
\nTianwen-1 is “broadly comparable to Viking in its scope and ambition”, said McDowell, referring to NASA’s Mars landing missions in 1975-1976.
\nCatching up<\/b>
\nAfter watching the United States and the Soviet Union lead the way during the Cold War, China has poured billions of dollars into its military-led space programme.
\n“China joining (the Mars race) will change the situation dominated by the US for half a century,” said Chen Lan, an independent analyst at GoTaikonauts.com, which specialises in China’s space programme.<\/p>\n

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\n Tianwen-1 launched aboard a Long March 5, China’s biggest space rocket
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China has made huge strides in the past decade, sending a human into space in 2003.<\/p>\n

The Asian powerhouse has laid the groundwork to assemble a space station by 2022 and gain a permanent foothold in Earth orbit.
\nChina has already sent two rovers to the Moon. With the second, China became the first country to make a successful soft landing on the far side.
\nThe Moon missions gave China experience in operating spacecraft beyond Earth orbit, but Mars is another story.
\nThe much greater distance means “a bigger light travel<\/a> time, so you have to do things more slowly as the radio signal round trip time is large,” said McDowell.
\nIt also means “you need a more sensitive ground station on Earth because the signals will be much fainter,” he added, noting that there is a greater risk of failure.
\nChina has upgraded its monitoring stations in the far-western Xinjiang region and northeastern Heilongjiang province to meet the Mars mission requirements, state news<\/a> agency Xinhua reported last week.<\/p>\n

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\n The Chinese mission is named Tianwen-1 in a nod to a classical poem that has verses about the cosmos
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The majority of the dozens of missions sent by the US, Russia, Europe, Japan and India to Mars since 1960 ended in failure.
\nTianwen-1 is not China’s first attempt to go to Mars.
\nA previous mission with Russia in 2011 ended prematurely as the launch failed.
\nNow, Beijing is trying on its own.
\n“As long as (Tianwen) safely lands on the Martian surface and sends back the first image, the mission will… be a big success,” Chen said.<\/p>\n

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