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If this was NASA, the silence would be an ominous sign. NASA (JPL) typically sends back a picture ASAP because they live stream the whole event and know the wor

If this was NASA, the silence would be an ominous sign. NASA (JPL) typically sends back a picture ASAP because they live stream the whole event and know the world is watching. NASA loves press, and is very good at it. Unsurprisingly, China is being much more secretive. I don't think three days of silence is indicative of anything. This is their first rover. I'm sure they're taking their time. If a few weeks from now we still haven't received pictures or data, I'll start to suspect a failure.

908B64B197 5y ago
> Unsurprisingly, China is being much more secretive. But why?
- throwawaydeitz1 5y ago
  Do you really need an explanation on why China historically doesn't like to share data?
  - TchoBeer 5y ago
    About the success of their mars mission? Yeah?
  - 908B64B197 5y ago
    I do. These are obviously "prestige programs" (well really duplicating a pervious iteration of the US space program). I'm curious why they wouldn't release data on day one, unless something went wrong and they are trying to save face.
bsder 5y ago
> Unsurprisingly, China is being much more secretive. I don't think three days of silence is indicative of anything. This is their first rover. This. Mars missions have a very high probability of failure. Nobody in China is going to get a huge benefit from livestreaming the success but they would get a huge downside for livestreaming the failure.