India's Mission to Mars

India's Mission to Mars

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  INDIA’S MISSION TOMARS ONE OF THE MOST ECONOMICAL INTERPLANETARY MISSIONS EVER UNDERTAKEN
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  RECENTLY, INDIA’S MANGALYAANSATELLITE SUCCESSFULLY ENTERED MARS’ ORBIT, JOINING NASA’S OWN MAVEN SATELLITE.
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  CURIOSITY WELCOMES MANGALYAANWITH A TWEET Curiosity Rover @MarsCuriosity Namaste, @MarsOrbiter! Congratulations to @ISRO and India’s first interplanetary mission upon achieving Mars orbit. ISRO’s Mars Orbiter @MarsOrbiter Howdy @MarsCuriosity ? Keep in touch. I’ll be around.
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  MANGALYAAN WEIGHS 1,350KG LAUNCHED NOV 5, 2013 IN MARS ORBIT SEPT 24, 2014 CLOSEST POINT TO MARS 366 KM
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  CHEAPER THAN THE FILMING BUDGET FOR “GRAVITY (2013)” INDIA HAS SPENT LESS TO REACH MARS THAN HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS HAVE SPENT ON THE MOVIE “GRAVITY,” WHICH COST $100 MILLION TO MAKE.
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  CHEAPER THAN NASA’SMISSION $74M COST OF INDIA'S MANGALYAAN MISSION $671M COST OF NASA'S MAVEN MISSION
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  TO KEEP COSTSLOW, INDIA RELIED ON REUSING TECHNOLOGIES. FUEL WAS SAVED BY USING A SMALLER ROCKET TO PUT ITS SPACECRAFT INTO EARTH’S ORBIT FIRST BEFORE SLINGSHOTTING IT TOWARD MARS.
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  27 MINUTES INEARTH’S ORBIT ! LARGER ROCKET AND MORE FUEL ! SINGLE BURN TO LAUNCH FROM EARTH’S ORBIT INTO INTERPLANETARY TRAJECTORY ALMOST 1 MONTH IN EARTH’S ORBIT ! SMALLER ROCKET AND LESS FUEL ! SEVEN BURN MANEUVERS TO LAUNCH FROM EARTH’S ORBIT INTO INTERPLANETARY TRAJECTORY TIME SIZE LAUNCH MANGALYAAN MAVEN
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  MANGALYAAN’S MARS MISSION MAP THE PLANET’S MINERAL COMPOSITION TAKE COLOR PICTURES OF THE SURFACE ATMOSPHERIC ANALYSIS MONITOR THE PLANET'S WEATHER
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  METHANE ON MARS MANGALYAAN IS EQUIPPED WITH AN INSTRUMENT THAT WILL ATTEMPT TO MEASURE METHANE IN THE ATMOSPHERE. SOME SCIENTISTS SEE METHANE AS A POTENTIAL INDICATOR OF BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY. ITS PRESENCE ON MARS MAY PROVIDE EVIDENCE THAT IT WAS ONCE CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING LIFE.
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  WHAT’S NEXT MEASUREMENTSOF ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS BY INDIA’S MANGALYAAN MISSION WILL COMPLEMENT OBSERVATIONS MADE BY NASA’S MAVEN AND EUROPE’S MARS EXPRESS.
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  CHECK OUT OUROTHER SLIDESHOWS SOURCES HTTP://WWW.NBCNEWS.COM/SCIENCE/SPACE/SHINING-SYMBOL-INDIAS-MARS-ORBITER-MISSION-GOES-ORBIT-N209756 HTTP://WWW.BBC.COM/NEWS/WORLD-ASIA-INDIA-29339370 HTTP://WWW.BBC.COM/NEWS/SCIENCE-ENVIRONMENT-29341850 HTTP://BLOGS.WSJ.COM/INDIAREALTIME/2014/09/23/HOW-INDIA-MOUNTED-THE-WORLDS-CHEAPEST-MISSION-TO-MARS/ HTTP://WWW.MANGALYAAN.COM/PAYLOADS.HTML www.stinsondesign.com @stinsondesign 1.888.960.9851 THE STARTUP CURVE THE TEN MOST CREATIVE ALARM CLOCKS