{"id":119279,"date":"2021-02-07T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T22:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/mars-missions-from-china-and-uae-are-set-to-go-into-orbit-heres-what-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2021-02-07T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T22:22:17","slug":"mars-missions-from-china-and-uae-are-set-to-go-into-orbit-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/mars-missions-from-china-and-uae-are-set-to-go-into-orbit-heres-what-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"Mars Missions From China and UAE Are Set to Go Into Orbit \u2013 Here\u2019s What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4sEcnZU65xA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How times have changed since the Apollo era. Within the space of a few days, two space missions from China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), respectively, are set to reach Mars. The UAE\u2019s Hope mission will go into orbit around Mars on February 9. The next day, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-020-1148-6\">Chinese Tianwen-1 mission<\/a> \u2013 an orbiter and lander \u2014 will swing into orbit, with a predicted landing date sometime in May.<\/p>\n<p>It is a very big moment for both countries. Hope is the first interplanetary mission by an Arab nation ever. And if China succeeds, it will be the first country ever to visit and land on Mars on its first try. The odds are stacked against them with nearly 50% of all Mars missions failing. China already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-16491457\">lost a Mars orbiter mission (Yinghuo-1)<\/a> back in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How times have changed since the Apollo era. Within the space of a few days, two space missions from China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), respectively, are set to reach Mars. The UAE\u2019s Hope mission will go into orbit around Mars on February 9. The next day, the Chinese Tianwen-1 mission \u2013 an orbiter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}