China To Establish Robot Station On Moon
China is planning to establish a robot station on the moon to conduct bigger and more complicated experimental research on lunar geography, a media report said today.
The station could slash the costs of returning rock samples to Earth, said Jiao Weixin, a Peking University space science professor.
A sustainable robot station would enhance lunar geography studies and "have better energy efficiency than lunar rovers as the station can deploy a much bigger solar power- generator," he said.
The base can conduct bigger, more complicated research and experiments, state-run Global Times quoted space officials who announced the plan at an international symposium in Shanghai earlier.
China's ambitious space programme included several manned missions, building permanent space station and re...