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Second: Tianwen-1
China s first independent Mars mission was launched on July 23, 2020, from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province.
Tianwen-1 also entered a Martian orbit during the second week of February the day after the EMM and two days before the Chinese New Year.
A Chinese Long March-5 rocket carried Tianwen-1, an orbiter, lander and rover, to Mars
The spacecraft conducted a braking operation to decelerate its speed to a point at which it can be captured by Mars gravity. As with the EMM, the Tianwen-1 probe will survey the Martian atmosphere.
Watch as NASA s space rover touches down on Mars
It may be last but by no means least NASA s Mars 2020 is the third mission to have successfully arrived at the Red Planet in the space of 10 days. It s the USA s largest Mars rover and it s carrying the first-ever Mars helicopter.
The show, as NASA put it, started late morning Pacific Time (early evening in Central Europe). But it was another two hours before the USA s latest rover, Perseverance, touched down on the surface of Mars at 20:56 UTC.
To land on Mars, the rover started its descent at a speed of over 20,000 kilometers per hour (12,000 miles per hour). A parachute and a powered descent mechanism then slowed the rover to about 3 km/h before a large sky crane lowered it on three bridle cords down to the surface of the planet, touching down on its six wheels.