The great space powers compete to be the first to find signs of life on the red planet

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This year, for a few weeks, Mars and the Earth will be aligned. The distance between the two will be the minimum—barely 54 million kilometers—something that will not happen again until 2022. That is why in 2020 an unprecedented event occurs since the end of the Cold War: the launch of four robotic missions to this planet, three of them headed by the main space powers, USA, Europe and China, who intend to successfully land their own exploration vehicles with the intention of being the first to find signs of life.

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