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Unveils Mars 2020 probe and science goals

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<a href="http://gbtimes.com/china/china-unveils-its-mars-2020-probe-and-science-goals" target="_blank">Martian probe, set for a 2020</a> launch date, is open to public naming suggestions <br />
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China has released images of its orbiter, lander and rover for its 
ambitious 2020 Mars mission, along with details of the scientific 
instruments to be sent to the Red Planet.<br />
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Chief architect of the mission, Zhang Rongqiao, told a press conference 
in Beijing on Tuesday that the mission will be complex and ambitious, 
including an orbiter, lander and rover.<br />
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The lander will carry a gasbag, a parachute and reverse thrust engines 
in order to achieve a safe landing, while factors such as the 
long-distance data transmission delay means that the rover will have a 
high autonomy. <br />
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The science goals include studying the Martian topography, soil, 
environment, atmosphere and water ice, as well as the planet's internal 
structure and search for possible signs of life.<br />
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The mission will launch on a Long March 5 rocket from the new Wenchang spaceport on the island province of Hainan in summer 2020. <br />
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<i>Above: China's Mars 2020 lander using thrusters for landing (Xinhua).</i><br />
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After around seven months and 400m kilometres, the mission will attempt 
to enter Mars orbit and achieve the orbiting, landing and roving aspects
 of the mission.<br />
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Dr Wu Ji, director of the National Space Science Centre in Beijing which develops space science payloads, <a class="externalLink" href="http://gbtimes.com/china/china-racing-make-2020-launch-window-mars" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">revealed to gbtimes in February</a>
 that the orbiter will have on board space particle detectors and 
cameras capable of detecting methane – the presence of which may 
indicate biological processes occurring on Mars.<br />
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The rover will carry a ground penetrating radar that could reveal a much about the past and present of Mars.</i><br />
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<i><i><i><i><i><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>The same instrument allowed China’s <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/01281656-fun-with-a-new-data-set-change.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yutu rover</a>
 to image around 400m below the lunar surface, making intriguing 
discoveries about the composition and history of the Moon, such as 
evidence of <a class="externalLink" href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/03/chinas-yutu-lunar-rover-found-evidence-of-multiple-volcanic-floods/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">volcanic floods</a>.</i></span></i></i></i></i>  </i><br />
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<i>2020 Mars rover.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">From the Moon to Mars</span><br />
China has already successfully put a lander and rover on the Moon in 
late 2013, but a landing on the Red Planet poses greater challenges, as 
it involves great speeds than a lunar mission, a thin but significant 
atmosphere, different gravity and an active planetary surface.<br />
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<a class="externalLink" href="http://gbtimes.com/people/ye-peijian" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ye Peijian</a>,
 an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, says the probe is 
being developed by the team that completed the 2013 Chang'e-3 lunar 
lander mission.<br />
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While this will be China's first attempt at an independent mission to 
Mars, China first attempted to reach the Red Planet with Yinghuo-1 on 
the back of Russia’s exciting <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.russianspaceweb.com/phobos_grunt.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Phobos-Grunt mission</a> to return samples from one of the moons of Mars in 2011, but the spacecraft failed to leave Earth orbit.<br />
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The country was then stung by
 the success of neighbours and fellow emergent Asian space power India, 
when it successfully inserted its ‘Mangalyaan’ probe into orbit around 
Mars in 2014.<br />
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China’s 2020 mission will share the optimal launch window for Mars missions, which occurs roughly every two years, with <a class="externalLink" href="http://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nasa’s 2020 Mars mission</a>, a Japan-launched mission for the <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.emiratesmarsmission.ae/mars-probe/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">United Arab Emirates</a> and perhaps also the second European-Russian <a class="externalLink" href="http://exploration.esa.int/mars/48088-mission-overview/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ExoMars </a>mission.</i></i><br />
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Unveils Mars 2020 probe and science goals

Martian probe, set for a 2020 launch date, is open to public naming suggestions China has released images of its orbiter, lander...

Lunar Roving Vehicle Pictures

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<b><span style="font-size: 18px;">New lunar rover unveiled at Chongqing tech fair</span> 2014</b><br />
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A visual concept of Chang'er 5<b>. </b>Credit: tech.qq.com<br />
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Chang'er 5 will be launched approximately in 2017<br />
The project will involve landing, exploring and returning home with moon rock and soil samples. The manoevres will be unmanned.<br />
There will be a rendevouz and docking procedure in the Lunar orbit before returning home<br />
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<b><span style="color: #660033;">Tiangong 2 - launching date: around 2015</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">Graphical presentation of a completed space station - China (converging on the center connector from 4 directions)- around 2020</span><br />
<span style="color: #0080ff;">Completion of core cabin around 2018</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #0080ff;"><b><span style="color: #00b359;">Launching of Tiangong 2 - around 2015</span></b></span></b><br />
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<b>Descriptive boxes from left to right: <br />
<span style="color: blue;">Cargo vehicle - Space Lab II - Core cabin - Astronauts' vehicle - Spae Lab I</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660066;">From a rotated angle of the structure ( converging on the the center connector from 6 directions)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Core cabin - Space lab I<br />
Cargo vehicle (top) - Astronauts' vehicle ( bottom)<br />
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<span style="color: #b30059;"><span style="color: #0000ee;">Launch first "space shuttle bus" this year<br />Yuan Zheng-1 Upper Stage Set for Launch in 2014</span><b><br />
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Variant Airship proposed by Dr. Li Xiaoyang of New Concept Aircraft (Zhuhai)  <br />
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Lunar Roving Vehicle Pictures

New lunar rover unveiled at Chongqing tech fair 2014 Credit: China Daily A visual concept of Chang'er 5 . Credit:...

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