Failure of mission hits Mars research
By Cheng Yingqi and Xin Dingding | China Daily | Updated: 2012-01-20 08:05
New objectives must be defined for next probe to the Red Planet
BEIJING - The loss of China's first interplanetary probe, attached to an ill-fated Russian spacecraft, has cost scientists the chance to conduct breakthrough research on Mars, a top scientist said.
New objectives must now be considered for a Mars exploration mission, probably in 2016, said Wu Ji, director-general of the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in an exclusive interview with China Daily.
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