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Its? Whose? NASA's or China's?

 
 
Reply Sun 8 May, 2011 11:25 pm

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Arvidson helps manage an archive that collects and distributes information from NASA’s planetary missions—past, present, and future. He has spent the past 5 years training space scientists at Shandong University in southeastern China to use the Planetary Data System (PDS). As China’s space program
expands, Arvidson hopes its scientists will overcome their historical reluctance to share data and use PDS to archive their results or
to create a compatible system that the rest of the world can access. He’s eager to see if his efforts will bear fruit in China’s fi rst planetary mission, Yinghuo 1, an orbiter to be launched
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Reply Sun 8 May, 2011 11:28 pm
Arvidson hopes it's scientists.........
Its = a company called arvidson

Pretty self explanatory Oristar.
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Reply Sun 8 May, 2011 11:58 pm
No. I'm pretty sure Arvidson is a person, not a company, and "its" refers to China, which has often been secretive about sharing information. Notice the pronoun referring to Arvidson is "he".
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Reply Mon 9 May, 2011 12:12 am
@oristarA,
I was wrong.
Monterey Jack is correct.
Its does in fact refer to China. (Or possibly Shandong Univerity)
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Reply Mon 9 May, 2011 12:16 am
Thank you both.
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