China has launched a Mars rocket in its first independent mission to visit another planet. At 12.41 pm (4.41am GMT), China's largest carrier rocket, the Long March 5 Y-4, blasted off with the probe from Wenchang Space Launch Centre on the southern island province of Hainan.
Crowds of people clapped and cheered from nearby beaches as the rocket blasted off from the launchpad. The Tianwen-1 mission is named for a poem by Qu Yuan, who lived from the fourth to third centuries B.C., and is translated as “Questions to Heaven” or “Heavenly Questions.” It includes an orbiter, a lander and a rover.
The journey will take seven months. The orbiter will study Mars for 687 Earth days, carrying out investigations into the planet's magnetic field.
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