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10 THINGS YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT INDIA’S
MARS MISSIONIndia's first mission to Mars blasted off
successfully on Tuesday, completing the first stage of an 11-month journey that could see the
country's low-cost programme win Asia's race to the Red Planet. Here are 10 key facts about the
mission.
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1. Mangalyaan’s Tuesday launch coincides with Mangalvaar, the day of Mars, called Mangala in Indian astronomy.
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2. The 1,350-kg orbiter weighs much less than an average sports utility vehicle.
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3. At Rs. 450 crore ($73 million) India’s mission is the cheapest — Nasa’s MAVEN (launch: November 18) costs nine times as much ($679 million i.e. Rs. 4,188 crore); Mars Rover cost $400 million; Curiosity, $2.5 billion.
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4. Mangalyaan was completed in one- and-a-half years; Nasa took five years for MAVEN.
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5. In ISRO’s 44-year history, this is its first-ever launch outside the Earth’s sphere of influence.
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7. A day before the mission, Isro chief K Radhakrishnan placed a scale model of the launch vehicle, the PSLV-C25, at Lord Vishnu’s feet in Tirumala.
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8. Mangalyaan will search for methane (marsh gas), the main component in natural gas and a possible indicator of life.
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9. Other objectives are atmospheric and particle environment studies and surface imaging.
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10. The probe is expected to arrive in Mars orbit in September 2014, approximately at the same time as MAVEN.