Mars holds a fascination for people, regardless of what country they're from.
The European Space Agency and Roscosmos (Russian) are working on a mission called "ExoMars" with a rover they hope will launch late next summer.
Virgin Orbit is working with partners from Poland to send satellites to Mars around 2022.
United Arab Emirates (UAE) will send an orbiter this summer.
NASA's administrator, Jim Bridenstine, says “Mars remains the horizon goal for NASA’s [U.S.] human exploration program, but it is important to note that we are at Mars now, with a growing number of robotic assets.”
Travel to Mars at its closest proximity will still take months. Its thin atmosphere has only a trace of oxygen. So the mission NASA plans to launch this coming summer will be to try making oxygen from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
from Bloomberg
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