Why Mars has the busiest two weeks in 47 years

It’s a busy February for Mars, with three sins from three separate countries arriving at the Red Planet in just nine days. But this Mars party did not happen by chance – it has to do with the mechanics of the Earth and the orbits of Mars.

The United Arab Emirates’ first interplanetary mission, the Hope probe, orbits Mars on Tuesday (February 9) The Live Science sister site Space.com reported. China’s first interplanetary mission, Tianwen-1, will enter its own orbit around Mars on Wednesday (February 10). The Chinese probe contains both a track and a lander with a rover on board expects to try to land on the surface in May. And on February 18, NASA’s first descendant vehicle will reach Mars and sink directly through its atmosphere. If all goes according to plan, the vehicle will shake off its outer shell and use rockets to stop the descent at the last minute. Then it will soar above the surface to lower the rhino-sized, nuclear-powered, $ 2.7 billion endurance capability through skycrane to the dirt.

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