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No parking: Why three space probes are all about to land on Mars
Monday February 08, 2021
After hurtling hundreds of millions of kilometres through space since July last year, three robotic explorers are ready to hit the brakes at Mars.
Three separate Mars missions will all arrive within the coming weeks.
The stakes – and anxiety – are sky high.
The United Arab Emirates’ orbiter reaches Mars on Tuesday followed less than 24 hours later by China’s orbiter-rover combo.
A US-built rover will arrive on the scene a week later, on February 18, to collect rocks for return to earth – a key step in determining whether life ever existed at…
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