India's Mars Orbiter Mission, the country's first interplanetary foray, is due to blast off on November 5 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. Billed as a pathfinder to test technologies to fly to orbit and communicate from Mars, the satellite follows India's successful 2008-2009 Chandrayaan-1 moon probe, which discovered water molecules in the lunar soil.
1 posted on
10/30/2013 9:28:54 PM PDT by
entropy12
To: entropy12
2 posted on
10/30/2013 9:31:16 PM PDT by
davisfh
To: entropy12
Splendid!
Be aware that Mars does not like visitors...
3 posted on
10/30/2013 9:32:12 PM PDT by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: entropy12
5 posted on
10/30/2013 10:43:42 PM PDT by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: entropy12
Is the rocket fueled by vindaloo?
6 posted on
10/30/2013 11:00:36 PM PDT by
Fai Mao
(Genius at Large)
To: entropy12
7 posted on
10/30/2013 11:09:58 PM PDT by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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