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  1. Interesting corollary to the #Perseverance discovery in the Bright Angel formation on #Mars making headlines 1 1/2 months ago: at a public talk in Bochum as part of a mathematics outreach event - mathematik.de/dmv/gauss-vorles -> transfer.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/de - former NASA Chief Scientist James Green (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L.) gave the new paper a 4 on the 7 step Confidence of #Life Detection scale en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confiden. That is unless someone figures out how to make the features and minerals Percy found abiologically without heat, then it would drop to 3. If on the other hand the respective sample makes it back to Earth after all in some #MarsSampleReturnMission the rating could jump up to 5 or 6 after lab analysis.

    Green also remarked that the sample tubes dropped by Percy are up for grabs for *any* spacefaring nation capable of doing a MSRM - including China though they don't plan to go after the Percy samples with their upcoming #Tianwen3 mission (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianwen-3) as far as he has heard. And regardless of where they'll get their own samples they could advance the case for life, perhaps even extant, on Mars a lot - which Green feels has been all but made in the past decades of Mars research anyway. Oh, and he also thinks terraforming Mars is quite viable ...

  2. 🇨🇳 #China's #DeepSpace program

    • 2028: #Tianwen3 to collect samples of #Mars 🔴, return them to Earth
    • 2029: #Tianwen4 to explore #Jupiter 🪐 and its moon #Callisto
    • 2030: Habitat to simulate long-duration human #spaceflight
    • 2033: #Venus atmosphere sample return
    • 2038: Mars 🔴 research station to study #ISRU ⚒️
    • 2039: Triton, #Neptune's largest moon, subsurface explorer for its ocean 🌊

    #NASA, for the first time since the 1960s, has a credible challenger.
    arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/

  3. With NASA’s plan faltering, China knows it can be first with Mars sample return - Enlarge / A "selfie" photo of China's Zhurong rover and the Tianwen-1 l... - arstechnica.com/?p=2047760 #marssamplereturn #planetaryscience #solarsystem #tianwen3 #science #space #china #mars #nasa

  4. via @AndrewJonesSpace :

    The CNSA #Tianwen3 asteroid sample return mission is still on schedule to launch in 2025 to attempt to collect samples from near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa; which spins fast and might be lunar ejecta - mp.weixin.qq.com/s/EzxJUnr-H-6 .

    There is no information in this release about the proposed CNSA asteroid deflection demonstration.

    Has anyone found any public reporting about that in the last several months?

  5. "The mission calls for a pair of launches in 2028 that would return a sample to Earth in July 2031. If successful, Tianwen-3 would be the first-ever robotic delivery of Mars samples to Earth."

    planetary.org/articles/tianwen

    #Mars #China #SampleReturn #Space #Tianwen3