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D. After the communist nation of Yugoslavia broke apart in the early 1990s, the region was torn by a series of ethnic and sectarian wars and the creation of seven independent nations.
B. The mission is NASA’s most ambitious effort in decades to directly study whether there was ever life on the now barren red planet. The car-size rover will use cameras, radar and lasers to look for signs of fossilized microbial life. It also will drill core samples to be picked up by a future spacecraft and returned to Earth for analysis.
A. China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft entered Mars orbit on Feb. 10, one day after a United Arab Emirates craft began its orbit to study the planet. Tianwen-1 is expected this year to try putting a lander and rover on Mars to study the distribution of ice, which future human colonists on Mars could use to sustain themselves.
A. The now-disbanded Soviet Union put its Mars 2 spacecraft into orbit around the planet in 1971. But, the spacecraft’s attempt to put a lander and rover on the surface ended in a crash and the first impact on Mars by a man-made object. So far, the United States is the only nation to successfully land and operate a rover on the surface of Mars.