First the Emirates Mars Mission, then China’s Huoxing-1, and finally NASA’s Mars 2020. Illustration of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover studying a Mars rock outcrop (not to scale). For example, NASA’s Mars 2020 is departing a few days after the Emirates Mars Mission. “The launch window differs depending on your launch vehicle, which typically gives you maybe a day or two on either end of that launch window,” said Al Amiri. That’s the next “year of Mars.”Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site for NASA's Mars 2020 mission.

Source: Forbes July 09, 2020 01:52 UTC