In July of 2020, because that's when the Earth and Mars get closest to each other, there will be four -- yes, 4 -- satellite missions launching to Mars. Three of them will attempt to land, while the fourth is an orbiter that will study the atmosphere.
Mars has traditionally been a hard place to land on, and there's a long list of missions that went missing or smashing on final approach. So we will have to watch and wait to find out which ones are successful. Hopefully all of them will make it.
The Daily Mail article linked below succinctly describes all of the missions.
The race to Mars: USA, Europe, Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates are all launching missions to the Red Planet in 2020 to search for ALIEN life
We don't want this to happen.
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