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India’s First Mars Mission Set to Blast off Seeking Methane Signature
universetoday.com ^ | October 17, 2013 | Ken Kremer on

Posted on 10/17/2013 7:55:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The 1,350 kilogram (2,980 pound) orbiter, also known as ‘Mangalyaan’, is slated to blast off as early as Oct. 28 atop India’s highly reliable Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from a seaside launch pad in Srihanikota, India.

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NASA is providing key communications and navigation support to ISRO and MOM through the agency’s trio of huge tracking antennas in the Deep Space Network (DSN).

As India’s initial mission to Mars, ISRO says that the mission’s objectives are both technological and scientific to demonstrate the nation’s capability to design an interplanetary mission and carry out fundamental Red Planet research with a suite of indigenously built instruments.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; india; isro; mangalyaan; mars; methane; nasa; pslv; srihanikota

1 posted on 10/17/2013 7:55:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Curiosity Rover has determined there is no methane on Mars.


2 posted on 10/17/2013 8:07:07 PM PDT by tennmountainman (Just Say No To Obamacare)
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To: BenLurkin

Oops!


3 posted on 10/17/2013 8:13:54 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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To: F15Eagle

"They blew up Congress....HA HA HA HA HA HA!"

5 posted on 10/17/2013 8:26:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

We go to Mars looking for water, India goes looking for cattle farts?


7 posted on 10/17/2013 8:31:50 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: BenLurkin

The Indians are looking for bovine flatulence on Mars caused by scared cows? How quaint.


8 posted on 10/17/2013 8:47:12 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: BenLurkin

Hey, a new way to dispose of their non-Hindu minorities!


9 posted on 10/17/2013 9:41:19 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: BenLurkin; 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...

Thanks BenLurkin.


10 posted on 10/17/2013 9:43:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: tennmountainman
High methane levels on Mars
11 posted on 10/17/2013 10:40:28 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: BenLurkin

Come to my house on Taco Bell dinner night.


12 posted on 10/18/2013 8:40:03 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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