facts about mars mission

1.    India's first mission to Mars, if successful, will place the country in an exclusive club of nations capable of sending probes to the Red Planet.

2.    The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched the Mars orbiter mission at 2.38 pm (IST) from a pad at the agency's Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, about 80 km from Chennai.

3.    The Rs 450-crore ($73.5 million) Mars mission will send the Mangalyaan spacecraft (the name is Hindi for "Mars Craft") on an 11-month trek to Mars to study the planet's atmosphere and surface from orbit. 

4.    PSLV C-25 will put Mangalyaan weighing 1,340 kilograms in the earth orbit. To reach Mars, the spacecraft has to enter three phases, the earth centered phase, the helio centric phase and finally the Martian phase.

5.    The spacecraft carries five instruments to study Mars, but its primary purpose is to serve as a technology demonstrator for future Indian interplanetary probes, ISRO officials have said.

6.    It has been configured to carry out observations of the physical features of the Mars and also to carry out a limited study of the Martian atmosphere.

7.    According to reports, Mangalyaan, the first inter-planatory mission to the red planet is primarily a technological machine.

8.    "Orbiting Mars itself is a challenge," said ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan, according to the Times of India. "This is our first interplanetary mission. There will be bigger missions later." Mangalyaan will be 365 km away from the surface of Mars at its nearest point from the planet.

9.    The risks for the mission are high. It's tough to reach Mars with spacecraft, and more than half of the 40 missions launched to the Red Planet since 1960 have failed.

10.    The mission was initially slated to launch on Oct. 28, but was pushed back when bad weather delayed the ships that will track the spacecraft after it separates from its rocket, ISRO officials said.

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Mars Missions

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The exploration of Mars has taken place over hundreds of years, beginning in earnest with the invention and development of the telescope during the 1600s. Increasingly detailed views of the planet from Earth inspired speculation about its environment and possible life – even intelligent civilizations – that might be found there. Probes sent from Earth beginning in the late 20th century have yielded a dramatic increase in knowledge about the Martian system, focused primarily on understanding its geology and possible habitability potential.

Engineering interplanetary journeys is very complicated, so the exploration of Mars has experienced a high failure rate, especially in earlier attempts. Roughly two-thirds of all spacecraft destined for Mars failed before completing their missions, and there are some that failed before their observations could begin. However, missions have also met with unexpected levels of success, such as the twin Mars Exploration Rovers operating for years beyond their original mission specifications.

Since 6 August 2012, there have been two scientific rovers on the surface of Mars beaming signals back to Earth (Opportunity, and Curiosity of the Mars Science Laboratory mission), and three orbiters currently surveying the planet: Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

To date, no sample return missions have been attempted for Mars, and one attempted return mission for Mars' moon Phobos (Fobos-Grunt) has failed.

The Unanswerable Quiz

1. Which two countries had a war in space and technology?
2. Who won the war among those two countries?
3.  When was  ISRO established?
4.  Which was the first satellite launched?
5.  Who was  the  first man on moon?




ANSWERS:
1. USA and Russia
2. USA
3. 1962
4. Sputnik 1
5. Neil Armstrong

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Quiz

1) Which was Earth's first satellite?

2) Which was the first satellite that landed on the moon?

3) Which was the first animal that went on space?

4) Who was the first human to enter the ' starry black yonder' ?

5) Who was the first women to go on space ?

6) Which of  the countries went  to  Venus when there was an competition between United States & Soviet union?

7) Who delivered the first artificial object on the martian surface ?

8) Which mission was the first successful mercury flyby ?

9) Which was the first successful Jupiter flyby program ?

10) Which space program carried out its mission to slam head-on into a soaring comet on July 4, 2005?

                                              Answers 

Ans 1: Sputnik 1

Ans 2: Luna 2

Ans 3:  Laika , the dog

Ans 4: Yuri Gagarin

Ans 5: Valentina Tereshkova

Ans 6: Soviet Union 

Ans 7: Soviet Union 

Ans 8: Mariner 10

Ans 9: Pioneer

Ans 10 : Deep Impact