India's Budget Mission To Mars Explained

making it to Mars is a huge achievement for any space agency and by putting a probe into orbit the Indian Space Agency has become part of an elite group of space explorers it's also become the world's first no-frills low-cost Space Agency in its closest orbit Mars is almost 35 million miles away but the mangalyaan probe traveled more than 420 million miles to align with the Red Planet it took 300 days but cost us 45 million pounds now that might sound a lot but compare that to NASA's latest mission to put a probe into orbit there that cost 409 million pounds that mission called maven was also successful the much larger probe entered the Martian orbit on Monday Maven's mission is to study the atmosphere of the planet to build up a better understanding of the current and past climate conditions NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation are likely to share data as mangalyaan is on a similar mission another famous NASA Explorer the Curiosity rover welcomed the Indian mission this to Mars this morning via Twitter account it said congratulations to the is ro and India's first interplanetary mission upon achieving Mars orbit a reply was sent out later on by the Indian space probes Twitter account saying howdy Mars curiosity keep in touch I'll be around

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Length: 1min 21sec (81 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 24 2014