China says it will defeat the United States and it will do so

This new battle will be fought with stones, even though it may sound totally strange to you.

Among NASA’s future missions, which the space agency has planned for the coming years, the Recovery and transfer to Earth of rocks from Mars is one of the ones that has attracted the most attention in the scientific community. However, in addition to the technical challenges, a new dark cloud It looks close on the horizon: China and its space program.

Martian rocks from future US and Chinese space missions

Although Mars can be observed from Earth, the advancement of knowledge about this celestial body would not be possible if the human being I would not have sent ships and vehicles to their vicinity.

We know what the red planet currently looks like, but we still have a long way to go. know and analyze samples of its soil and rocks that have inhabited its surface for billions of years. USA has the Mars Sample Return mission underway, but it may have to speed up its schedule if it doesn’t want to be surpassed by China.

He Asian country seems to have its own plans underway, as reported by the South China Morning Post, and among them is the Tianwen-3 missionwhich would also seek to recover Martian rocks and bring them to Earth.

Wu Weiren is the head of China’s Lunar Exploration Program and has assured his nation’s digital media that ‘China to launch Tianwen-3 spacecraft around the year 2030 to implement its mission of Mars sample recovery‘. In fact, he goes even further, ‘hoping to become the first country to deliver Mars samples.’

Although there were rumors surrounding this mission, it is the first time that an official from the Chinese space agency has spoken clearly about the deadlines they have in mind. Furthermore, within the positioning as the first nation to bring Martian rocks to Earthhas also stated that they will be the first to create a Mars rock sample laboratory on earth.

It certainly seems that the scientific war between China and the United Statesthe only two countries that have managed to land their technologies on Martian soil, will be accentuated in the coming years, with the 2030 horizon very much in mind.

For his part, the Perseverance rover already has the Martian samples in its possession that will be sent to Earth, but there is still a lot of work ahead so that the Mars Sample Return mission get them to the United States. Will it be before or after China?

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