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China intends to bring in samples from Mars two years ahead of the effort currently being jointly planned by the Americans and Europeans. If that's not a clear sign that we have a new space race underway, I don't know what is. The revelation came as a surprise during a presentation last Monday (20) by Sun Zezhou, chief designer of the Chinese mission Tianwen-1, which last year took an orbiter, a lander and a rover to the red planet. . That the Chinese were planning a Martian sample return for the future of their program was already known. But the...
