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China launches space rocket in ambitious Mars landing mission | China | The Guardian

China launches space rocket in ambitious Mars landing mission | China | The Guardian: In an article published earlier this month in Nature Astronomy, the mission’s former chief engineer, Wan Weixing, said Tianwen-1 would slip into orbit around Mars in February and look for a landing site on Utopia Planitia – a plain where Nasa has detected possible evidence of underground ice. Wan died in May from cancer.

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