Sunday 14 February 2021

Howdy, Ahlan and Nǐ Hǎo Mars

 If there is any intelligent life on Mars they will be sick to death of us Earthlings by the end of the month as three of our Space thing land on their planet.
After six months of careening through space, first up is the Hope Orbiter launched by the United Arab Emirates which is at least staying in the Martian sky where it will study the planet’s atmosphere and weather but right behind that is China's Tianwen-1 which is a 3 in 1 affair, consisting of an orbiter, a landing pod and a rover to study the Red Planets surface.
The final piece of Space equipment is NASA's Perseverance which is also a Rover but contains also a helicopter which will attempt to fly around the surface but there was almost a fourth but the European–Russian Mars mission has been delayed by two years due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
The Hope Orbitor is already in position and sending back pictures but the other two will be arriving shortly and have the additional problem of sticking the landing in Mars thin atmosphere.
The scientists all say that the missions are about gathering information and analyzing geology but it is hard to deny that the only thing we all care about is any evidence of life on Mars, and if there is, it will be saying stop polluting our planet by sending all your crap here!

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