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China has unveiled a long-term planetary exploration roadmap for planetary habitability and the search for extraterrestrial life. Released by the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL), the roadmap outlines a series of upcoming and proposed missions targeting key destinations across the solar system.

China’s planetary habitability roadmap looks like this:

  • Tianwen-3 Mars sample return (2028)
  • Tianwen-4 Jupiter and Callisto orbiter (2029)
  • Habitable Environments Simulator (2030)
  • Venus atmospheric sampler return (2033)
  • Mars Science Station (2038)
  • Neptune orbiter mission (2039)
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[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 15 points 1 week ago

So happy to hear, finally someone other than NASA doing big exciting missions like this. ESA has done great things as well but not really much compared to NASA.

I hope China will be successful in these missions and deliver new science and discoveries, and spur more competition from NASA, ESA, and ISRO

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

What you don't want burgers meeting aliens who'd be like "hey check out these dope Hitler memes I have on my phone!"

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Why would the aliens be sharing Hitler memes?

spoilerI know what you meant but your sentence was ambiguously worded and the mental image was funny to me peltier-laugh

[-] NPa@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Like in Contact where aliens send back the earliest broadcast they've received (a speech by Hitler), except this time, Fleepflorp-394s36x is insanely brainrotted and has a folder named "Rare Hitler-jaks" on his tricorder. posadist-nuke

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

I find myself not understanding like half of what hexbear users are saying/mean, so to satiate my curiosity would you mind explaning to me?

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

The antecedent of "who'd be like..." is ambiguous. In context, it's obviously referring to the Americans, but its closer proximity to the aliens makes it read at first as if it's the aliens sharing Hitler memes.

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

I see I see, thanks for explaining

[-] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

China taking us to luxury space communism. geordi-yes

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago
[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

That Is a bummer, however (if you aren't already aware) we do still have Europa Clipper to look forward too from NASA. It's launched already but still a bit of a wait till the main science begins in 2030.

Hopefully it's a very successful mission and we can learn a lot of new information and science about Europa. I absolutely love space competition between countries because space is fascinating and I want to learn and see all I can before I die, so I want every country to keep pushing and impressing the world. Trying to one up each other on new missions and their goals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper

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