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| Failure of Mission Hits Mars Research |
| [2012-01-20] |
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The loss of China's first interplanetary probe, attached to an ill-fated Russian spacecraft, has cost scientists the chance to conduct breakthrough research on Mars, a top scientist said. New objectives must now be considered for a Mars exploration mission, probably in 2016, said Wu Ji, director-general of the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in an exclusive interview with China Daily. |
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| Grain Crop Heads for Ninth Year of Increase |
| [2012-01-18] |
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The nation's grain harvest will increase again this year, the ninth gain in a row, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) forecast on Tuesday. The outlook, released by the academy's Center for Forecasting Sciences, suggested that domestic food consumption would continue to rise. Such an increase might lead to higher agricultural imports, said analysts. |
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| CEODE Receives Image Data from the First High-precision Three-dimensional Mapping Satellite of China |
| [2012-01-18] |
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CEODE’s Miyun Ground Station received the first track of satellite imaging data from the ZY3 satellite and implemented real-time recording and large capacity optical data transmission on Jan. 11. A total of 56.6 GB of image data were received in nearly ten minutes. A dual-polarized, high-bitrate technology was applied for the first time in a remote sensing satellite ground system to receive the satellite data... |
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| Sunway BlueLight Supercomputer in Operation |
| [2012-01-19] |
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The Chinese Sunway BlueLight supercomputer, which was built with domestically produced microprocessors and is capable of performing around one-thousand-trillion calculations per second, has officially gone into operation at the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in east China's city of Jinan, the center said Thursday. |
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| Eight scientists from the Chinese mainland are announced to be new Fellows of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) at the TWAS 22nd General Meeting held in Trieste, Italy, on November 21. |
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