[Tell It Right]

If the China Mars mission is a failure the people in China will hear reports about how awesomely successful it was and how it proved Sino supremacy over evil capitalist Americans.

[Nateman]

Commies on the RED planet. What took them so long? Maybe... Communism ?

[Campion]

it will become only the third country to land a rover on another planet after the United States and Russia

I don't think this is correct. The Russians attempted twice to land a rover on Mars back in the 1970's, but both missions crashed. They've landed on Venus, but those weren't rovers. They have a Mars mission in the works with the Europeans, but it won't launch until 2022.

(I'm not counting moon rovers; both the Chinese and Russians have landed unmanned moon rovers.)

[Campion]

China aims to achieve orbiting, landing, and roving on the Red Planet in a single mission.

This is backwards. It's technically much harder to land on Mars without going into Martian orbit first, the way the US has been doing. The tradeoff is that you also save a lot on spacecraft weight by not needing an orbiter stage.

[JRios1968]

They’ll be wanting to do it again an hour later...

[proud American in Canada]

What a beautiful culture! They name their space equipment after what...God and Godesses? *rolls eyes*

Whereas Americans and Canadians have more utilitarian names, like Challenger, The Canadian Arm (not sure what it’s called in English but it helped the space shuttle get repaired, I think), Rover, etc.

Even the Soviets had Sputnik, though I have no idea what it means.

[fhayek]

Technically, the Chinese will not be successful in landing a rover on Mars given that they stole the technology from us.

[logi_cal869]

So is the rover going to take out the American rover? /s

Jokes aside, the whole reason they parked it in orbit for over a month was so that national coverage of the US rover would die down...assuming that theirs doesn’t do a ‘ Schiaparelli‘...

[Flag_This]

I wonder what they’ll name the crater.

[Rebelbase]

Our next Rover needs to be armed to deal with Red invaders.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

It will probably crash into our Mars copter.

[sauropod]

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