State media say the lift-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert is likely to occur between 21:16 and 21:31 local time (13:16-13:31 GMT).

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Peary, and naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews, a real-life Indiana Jones who roamed the Gobi Desert hunting for dinosaur fossils.

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The 3m-long skeleton, found on an expedition to China's Gobi desert, is described in the journal Science.

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