The Rs. 450-crore assignment
directs to harvest Mars from near as 372 km from its surface and it would be
the first ever to scrub its atmosphere and surface for paraffin gas there, an
official of the Indian Space Research Organization told The Hindu.
The present of paraffin gas
is a tattler sign of life that may have survived on the planet.
Lunar assignment Chandrayaan-1 became popular for finding water equipment
on the Moon’s land with the support of a U.S. tool.
The MOM will found the
country’s technical capacity to take up such a long shot some 400 million km
away. The journey would be 1,000 times
longer than Chandrayaan-1, shipped in 2008.
The Mars assignment is “India’s next challenging technical assignment
out
of the Earth’s gravitational area,” according to the ISRO.
The orbiter, a 1,350-kg ballistic capsule, will carry five
main payloads or tools. The ISRO requires to launch it towards October-end or
the starting of November, depending on the weather. That will be the tornado season.
“As per plans, the orbiter is expected to exit the Earth orbit
on November 26/27, travel towards Mars over around 300 days. We plan to insert
the satellite in an orbit around Mars on September 22, 2014,” the official
said.
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