Mankind conquering Mars
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In this illustration provided by NASA, the Perseverance rover is making its descent towards the surface of Mars.
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By: Anne Verdaguer
21 min
On February 18, 2021, NASA's Perseverance robot reached the planet Mars after several months of high-risk travel.
After having landed safely, the robot sent its first color photos of the red planet at the start of the week, and even the first sounds of Mars.
At the same time, three other Chinese and Emirati missions are on their way to the Red Planet.
Beyond the dream, what are the scientific, but also geopolitical issues of this space conquest?
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Isabelle Sourbès-Verger
, geographer, researcher at the CNRS Center Alexandre Koyré, specialist in questions of geopolitics of space and space policies, author of the book
Un empire très celeste.
China in the conquest of space
(Dunod editions, 2008) and co-author of the book
Space, new territory: atlas of satellites and space policies
(Belin, 2002).
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