So I did purposely use a plural in my ‘who’s excited about up coming Mars event’ - as there are THREE spacecraft arriving at Mars this month cnn.com/2021/01/29/wor…
The @HopeMarsMission will be the first to arrive, and will go for its tricky orbital insertion on the 9th Feb. If successful then UAE will become only the 5th country (I think) to achieve this
Then the next day the Chinese Tianwen-1 mission will attempt the same - they have a lander on board that will wait until May for deployment
Then on 18th Feb is the finale of the Mars arrivals for 2021 with @NASAPersevere heading straight in for landing
Each of these feats are pretty difficult, it’s gonna be a long nervous month. I’d love to see 3/3 successful
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