SHANGHAI— China introduced its very first mission to Mars on Thursday, aiming to join the short listing of nations that have landed a spacecraft on a different earth.
The Tianwen-one blasted off from the Wenchang Place Launch Middle on the island of Hainan at twelve:40 p.m. local time aboard the newly designed Long March five rocket. It is predicted to make the 34-million mile journey to Mars in seven months, after which it will attempt to slip into orbit all over the earth and deliver a rover to the floor.
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