China Focus: Chinese scientist details first planned Mars sample-return mission Tianwen 3
Sunday, 27 July 2025 () Beijing (XNA) Jul 25, 2025
China's first Mars sample-return mission, Tianwen 3, is scheduled for launch around 2028, with the goal of returning no less than 500 grams of Martian samples to Earth by around 2031, according to the mission's chief scientist. Hou Zengqian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chief scientist of the Tianwen 3 mission, together with his collaborators, recently published an
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