TechWeb reported on 25 April, China's space, on the same day, China's first announced Mars project schedule, xu da zhe, NASA's director, said in late "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in planning, around the year 2020 will launch a satellite to Mars is on its way.

Published China's first Mars schedule (image capture from NASA's website)

Now landing on Mars can and tour in the United States, Russia can do landing, and the China national space administration's plan is to be able to achieve by Mars one pace reachs the designated position plan (patrol) detection and landing.

China aerospace science and technology (000901, shares) five-department Mars rover group chief designer Sun Zezhou in had an interview with xinhua news agency, said the Chinese form of Mars missions abroad is not seen. America's detection is surrounded around, patrol is the patrol. "We want to use the limited funds as much as possible to get some results, more effectively promote technological progress. So we want to combine the moon has walked the first step and the second step, the basis of step implementation surrounded, landing and tour. We have the technical conditions, want to stride to a bit bigger."

Why must go to Mars?

Xu da zhe explained that although China's vehicle has entered into deep space, but in deep space detection need Mars missions to complete implementation, if China can successfully landed on Mars and on patrol, so that we can study the Martian soil, environment, atmosphere, and water. The study of Mars, is actually to man himself, the origin of life, the earth environment research.

Mars exploration program in China, the China national space administration chief designer to the moon and Mars wei-ren wu said, "the United States, Europe has been launched to Mars probe, India also went to the Mars, we could have earlier on Mars, but the country has been finally approved the project until now. We will enter the orbit of Mars, Mars and deploy a rovers - all in a task to complete."

Has been in place since the 1960 s, the international on 42 times of Mars missions, the success rate is only 52%. The impact of landing one of the biggest uncertainty is the problem the Martian air.

Sun Zezhou said, the Martian atmosphere has the very high uncertainty, we haven't known through some factors, such as the changing rule of the Martian atmosphere, the characteristics of the storm, and so on. We now feel pressure is very big, because cannot control many factors. If the land really up a dust storm, there will be no landing.