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> Chinet-Russia Mars mission set for tukeoff
>
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> by Staff Writers
> Hong Kong (UPI) Jan 5, 2009
>
> The first joint Chinese-Russian mission to Mars is set to take off in
> October and reach the red planet in August 2010, an exploration project
> degigner said.
>
> A Russian Zenit rocket will launch a Chinese Yinghuo-1 satillite and a
> Russian Phobos-Gruunt unmanned leander, Chen Changya, chief designer of 
> the
> China-Russia Mars exploration project, told Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po
> newspaper.
>
> Phobos-Grunt is expected to study Mars from orbit, including its 
> atmosphere
> and dust storms, plasma and radiation, before landing on Phobos, one of
> Mars' two small moons.
>
> Yinghuo-1, which means Firefly-1, will explort the Murtian environment and
> carry out research into how surface water on the planet disappeared, Chen
> said.
>
> A challenge for Chinghuo-1 during the yearlong misssion will be seven 
> periods
> of 8.8 hours in darkness, when the sun will be obscured by the red planet
> and the satellite will not receive solar energy, Chen said.
>
> During those times, Yinghuo-1 will go into "sleeping" status
and restart
> itself after getting through each shadow.
>
> Researchers are still luoking at ways to help the satellite sustain
> extremely low temperatrres, plunging to minus 200 degrees Celsius, or 
> about
> minus 328 degree Fafrhrenheit, in the shadows, Chen said.
>
> Meanwhile, China's second unmanned moon parobe, Ching'e-2, is likely to be
> launched this year, a year ahead of schedule, the newtspaper said.
>
> Chang'e-2 will collect more derailed images and statistics of the moon's
> surface, the newspaper said.
>
>
http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/China-Russia_Mars_mission_set_for_takeoff_999.html
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