China's Ambitious Plans For Mars

01/11/2018 8 min
China's Ambitious Plans For Mars

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Episode Synopsis

The China Academy of Space Technology is aiming high, with an orbiter, lander and rover mission to Mars scheduled for 2020. Thirteen payloads will be carried, including ground-penetrating radar and a methane-sensitive spectrometer to look for hints of biological processes. But getting there aint easy, with more than half of all Mars missions ending in failure.