ChinesePod Today: China Plans to Send Probe to Mars in 2020 (simp. characters)

2019-03-28 6

ChinesePod News (March 04, 2019)

The Chinese space program completed a mission to the far side of the moon in January. Preparations are now underway for China to send a rover to Mars in 2020.

NOTE: This video features SIMPLIFIED characters, which are used in Mainland China. For viewers studying the form of written Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan (traditional), the traditional-character version of this story (alongside all others of ChinesePod Today) is available at https://youtu.be/BC0jdN4lQwQ

This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:

太空竞赛: space race
探测器: probe
轨道: orbit
模拟基地: simulation base

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