Space race to Mars: US, China & UAE plan to explore Earth's closest neighbour in July

Three countries—United Arab Emirates, China and United States—are all competing in a race to land a probe on Mars. According to reports, all three countries will be trying to take vant of  period of time when Mars and Earth will be closest to each or, roughly 55 million kilometres (34 million miles) apart.

Three-way race to Red Planet

As per reports, this opportunity to launch a mission to Mars only comes once in 26 months given speed and trajectory at which both planets revolve around Sun. All ncies plan to launch ir mission in an attempt to search for past life, as well as study planet and pave way for humans to step on Red Planet.

three mission are Hope Probe by UAE, Tianwen-1 by China and Mars 2020 by United States that will be carrying Mars rover Perseverance. This will be United States' fifth expletory vehicle to be sent to Mars;  name for probe was decided by an online vote. Perseverance will spend one Mars year, which is 687 Earth days, on surface and collect data as well as samples, goal of future missions will be to retrieve those collected samples. Hope Probe by UAE will be first interplanetary mission launched by an Arab country while China plans to launch a small remote-controlled rover.

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According to reports, a fourth mission was supposed to be launched by EU and Russia, but launch was postponed till 2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic.

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