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India’s Mangalyaan shuttle has now successfully entered the Mars orbit

Dragos MitricabyDragos Mitrica
September 24, 2014
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We were telling you yesterday about India’s Mangalyaan shuttle, which was set to enter Martian orbit. Here’s the update: everything went fine, Mangalyaan has entered the red planet’s orbit in a historic moment for Indian science.

IMAGE: ARUN SANKAR K/ASSOCIATED PRESS

“History has been created today”, said  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. We have achieved the near impossible. I congratulate all ISRO scientists and all my fellow Indians on this historic achievement,” Mr Modi said, noting that India was the first country to achieve this on the first attempt.

Indeed, no other country managed to be successful in their first attempt of sending a shuttle to Mars. To make things even more interesting, they managed to do so at just 11% of the cost of the US probe; the entire project also took only 14 months to reach fruition. India has now officially joined the U.S., Europe and Russia in orbiting Mars, in a statement on the country’s commitment to scientific development.

“This is a big step,” said Bangalore-based B.N. Raghunandan, a former chairman of the aerospace engineering department at the Indian Institute of Science. “People will see India as a destination for high-end projects. But there are a number of technologies in space, like human space missions, where we are nowhere near what China has done.”

The $74 million mission aims to map Martian surface, study the atmosphere and search for methane gas – one of the clearest signs of supporting life. Needless to say, the entire Indian press was delighted. The Chinese expressed their congratulations as well:

“This is pride of India and pride of Asia and also is a landmark progress in humankind’s exploration of outer space,” the Press Trust of India reported, citing China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying. “So we congratulate India on that.”

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Dragos has been working in geology for six years, and loving every minute of it. Now, his more recent focus is on paleoclimate and climatic evolution, though in his spare time, he also dedicates a lot of time to chaos theory and complex systems.

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