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How clever of them to have faked a rover failure with Chang'e 3 then, so that we'd believe them now if they report that the rover works. But seriously, we have
by Symmetry 8y ago
How clever of them to have faked a rover failure with Chang'e 3 then, so that we'd believe them now if they report that the rover works. But seriously, we haven't seen any indications of the CNSA faking anything. China isn't a person, it's a whole big country. The fact that Bernie Madoff defrauded a huge number of people doesn't mean that you can't trust NASA.
- Symmetry 8y agoI don't want to sing the praises of CNSA's openness here. They have a history of keeping things secret until they work out, like the Soviets did. And probably there are failures we'll never hear about. But if they say they landed a probe on the far side of the Moon then there isn't reason to doubt them.