Posted on 08/24/2016 5:43:48 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
China has its sights set firmly on Mars and is aiming to launch its own rover to the red planet by 2020.
New images have today provided the first glimpse of what this rover might look like when it launches at the end of the decade.
As part of the announcement, China also launched a competition for members of the public to come up with a name and logo for the rover.
China, which is pouring billions into its space programme and working to catch up with the US and Europe, announced in April it aims to send a spacecraft 'around 2020' to orbit Mars, land and deploy the rover.
Zhang Rongqiao, chief architect of the project, said they were targeting July or August of that year for the launch, the Xinhua news agency reported. 'The challenges we face are unprecedented,' the report quoted him as saying.
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China is still using images with the forced red sky that NASA has since dropped revealing the natural blue Martian sky.
I’d say the yellow-brown accurately represents the Martian sky.
“Around sunset and sunrise the Martian sky is pinkish-red in color, but in the vicinity of the setting sun or rising sun it is blue. This is the exact opposite of the situation on Earth. However, during the day the sky is a yellow-brown “butterscotch” color. On Mars, Rayleigh scattering is usually a very small effect.”
Which rover did they copy ?
Looks blue to me and to many others - use the full image not the posted shot
Opps sorry wrong thread - see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3462405/posts for sky color.
Kinda looks familiar
Come on, people, Matt Damon’s getting hungry up there.
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