Whose Mars is it? Years ago it was the exclusive property of the United States and Russia, according to an unwritten law that allocates celestial objects to those who got there first. Something similar happened with the Moon, where anyone who got there could hang a flag as if that meant something outside of our planet. All this is no longer the case. Japan already tried to put a satellite on the red planet at the end of the nineties, although it did not go well. The European Space Agency (ESA) was successful in 2003, although it has only managed to put ships into the orbit of the neighboring planet, since its attempt to land on it ended up stamped in 2-D against the hard Martian soil. In the last week alone, the United Arab Emirates and China have launched their respective missions, since the red planet is at a favorable point in its orbit to reach it from Earth. It's high season on Mars. Soon there will be too many flags there to count for anything.
