NASA ’s next Mars roverPerseverancewill jet off towards the Red Planet this July , but it wo n’t be alone . China is gearing up for its first Martian mission this summertime too , with the launching of Tianwen-1 , which will include an satellite , lander , and rover . The United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) is also launching a Mars foreign mission , an artificial satellite constructed in collaboration with three US university .
You might think the sky are getting a niggling interfering , but the apparent crowding is no coincidence . This summer , this class , is the ideal time to journey to Mars from Earth . Due to the relative position of Earth and Mars at the moment of launching and arrival , between July and September this twelvemonth proffer the poor route , and so will take the least among of energy , to reach the Red Planet . The next launch windowpane with the short route to Mars wo n’t be for another 2.5 long time . This approach is key in any mission rendezvousing with another celestial body . For Martian missions , the windowpane retell every 780 days .
Tianwen-1 will consist of an artificial satellite to canvass the terrain and magnetized properties of Mars . In its suite of instruments , a eminent - reticuloendothelial system photographic camera will get images with a resolution of 2 meter ( 6 metrical foot ) from a 400 - klick ( 250 - mile ) orbit . Not as astute as NASA ’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’sHiRISE photographic camera , although MRO is 25 percent closer to the planet , but the more eye on the Red Planet the good .
In a similar manner to China ’s successful Chang’e-4 mission that landed on the far side of the Moon in late 2018 , give us ourfirst - ever picturestaken from there , Tianwen-1will deliver a lander and a rover to the airfoil of Mars . The exciting capabilities of this duo include a ground - penetrating microwave radar that will allow investigator to map up to 100 meters ( 330 invertebrate foot ) below the Martian surface .
TheEmirates Mars missionis call Hope ( Al Amal in Arabic ) . It was built by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre together with the University of Colorado Boulder , Arizona State University , and the University of California , Berkeley . It will study daily and seasonal changes in the Martian atmosphere , which will hopefully inform us of the ancient history of the satellite and how it became such a ironic and frigid world .
Perseverance , Tianwen-1 , and Hope will reach Mars in early 2021 . In this expansion slot , they were hypothesize to be joined by the Russian - EuropeanRosalind Franklin rover , but its launching has beenpostponeddue to the pandemic , and will now look for the next idealistic windowpane in 2022 . Still , that ’s plenty of skill to get delirious about in the come months .
