China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country’s Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars’s surface by early next year.
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https://phys.org/news/2020-07-space-wasnt-dangerous-bacteria-deadly.html