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India becomes the first nation to launch a Missio to Mars in Asian countries and the launch
status so far is success and is right now oribiting the earth for 25 days .
The mission named Mangalyan carrying the Mars Orbiter was launched by rocket
PSLV C-25 , a powerful rocket with 4 stage ignition systems, made by ISRO , India .

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1. The spacecraft will go around Earth for 20-25 days in an elliptical orbit to gain the

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2. Mangalyan will then begin a nine-month ( 300 days ) long voyage to Mars on December
1, 2013 .
3. Our MOM will reach Martian orbit by September 24, 2014 , then will form elliptical orbit
on mars .
4 . Mangalyan or MOM carries five scientific instruments Lyman Alpha Photometer
(LAP),Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM), Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser
(MENCA), Mars Colour Camera (MCC) and Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (TIS) .

5 . The LAP and MSM is to study Martian atmosphere, MENCA to study particle
environment on MARS . MCC and TIS are to analyse and get info on surface imaging of
the red planet .
6 . The mars orbiter weighs 1337 kg , where 852 kg fuel has 15 kg of scientific
instruments.
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7 . Mangalyans Mission is looking for the presence of methane, an indicator of life in

Mars.
8 . The vehicle trajectory will be tracked from three different locations , 1st from Indian
Deep Station Network at Byalulu near Bangalore , Down Range Station at Port Blair in
India and from Biak in Indonesia and Brunei.
9 . Methane sensor on board the spacecraft , would look to detect the presence of
methane on Mars .
10 . The Mars orbiter will complete travelling about 485 million miles on reaching MARS
orbit .
It took about 2 years to built Mangalyan , ISROs scientists are now very happy about the
mission has succesfully launched and ofcourse its time for the wholenation to proud of
being 1st Asian country to launch Mars Mission and that too the very 1st mission itself turn
out to be a success.
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S ent hil Mec h

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sep 24 iam waiting for that day....come soon........

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A ravind k umar

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waiting for the information about mars....proud of our country

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Naveen A k ula

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Always proud to be an Indian :) Keep posting. Cool site.

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