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Source: Xinhua Date:2016/08/24
China on Tuesday released images of a Mars probe and rover which the country plans to send to the Red Planet within five years.
China plans to send a spacecraft to orbit Mars, make a landing, and deploy a rover in July or August 2020. The 2020 mission will be launched on a Long March-5 launch vehicle from the Wenchang space launch center in south China's Hainan province.
The lander will separate from the orbiter at the end of a journey of around seven months and touch down in a low latitude area in the northern hemisphere of Mars where the rover will explore the surface.
(Picture released on Aug. 23, 2016 by lunar probe and space project center of Chinese State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence shows the concept portraying what the Mars probe would look like. Image of China's Mars rover was also released Tuesday.)
(Pictures released on Aug. 23, 2016 by lunar probe and space project center of Chinese State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence shows the concept portraying what the Mars rover and lander would look like. Image of China's Mars probe was also released Tuesday.)
Date:2016-08-24