Europe's Mars orbiter relays data from Chinese rover back to Earth

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The European Space Agency's Mars Express collected data from China's Zhurong Mars rover and successfully sent it to Earth following a series of experimental communications tests.

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As it should be! Ideally, any ground station could use any orbiter as a relay, much more reliable than depending on one specific orbiter.