China's First Mars Probe Ready To Launch

henrypijames writes "At the Shanghai Aerospace Exhibition last week, China's first Mars probe Yinghuo-1 was the main attraction. The newly completed probe will soon be sent to Moscow for some further testing, before a joint launch with Russia's own probe Phobos-Grunt from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this October."

Re:Sounds fine to me

[ethogram]

I believe Grunt is Russian for Ground and will be a sample return mission from Phobos. The Planetary Society is flying something as well: a long term biological exposure project called Life. I think the idea is to see whether cells can survive long term exposure to the radiation environment of interplanetary space (as opposed to low earth orbit).

Re:Should we let them launch?

[Anonymous Coward]

Troll? Obviously North Korea related sarcasm..

Re:How delicious...

[Anonymous Coward]

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