It's a great day for India. The greatest democracy of the world has sent a probe to the Red Planet months ago and now that little machine is orbiting around Mars. http://www.space.com/27242-india-mars-mission-arrival.html So, India has entered the exclusive clubs of the "Martian explorers" with US, Russia and EU. An astonishing result which is a symbol of the development of that enormous country. Absolutely a fantastic achievement. I do know that easy criticism can hit a country with a so diffused poverty that spends billions of US$ to explore an other planet, but if we think to how much money did the US spend to conquer the Moon and the feedback of that program ... No, I don't think it's time for criticism, but only for congratulations. Well done India!
Wonderful. Redundancy is a glorious thing. Now, let's get the "Martian Club" to combine resources, so something genuinely newsworthy can be caused to happen.
For who is interested in knowing more about this mission and the prob [which carries the Indian name of "Mangalyaan", this site of the ISRO can be very useful. http://www.isro.org/pslv-c25/mission.aspx
I would not call India the greatest democracy in the world with the way they citizens are classified but to each his own ! We need more countries working on space exploration !
Wonderful news. I'm sure the 65 million people without access to running water are cheering their govt's achievement.
Yes, you're right. Governments in rich countries [I don't mention some EU countries ...] should understand that space exploration is a way to invest into the future, not a way to waste money. Mechanized exploration, at the end, doesn't require impossible amounts of money and national space agencies could do something also out of European consortium. If we are able to send satellites to the orbit, with a little further effort we [I intend, we Italians, here] could send a probe to an other planet ...
Eh, in Italy there is a joke about Mars. One guy asks to an other: "is there life on Mars?" The other answers: "a bit on Saturday night ..." Also Italy is doing something in the space [we have developed a rocket able to carry a satellite to the orbit, so why not making a little step more, developing a rocket able to send a probe to Mars? The counterargument usually is ... "lack of tax payers money to spend" ... F35 stealth program costs well more than a probe to Mars ...].
Like it or not, each State still controls there water, even if the EPA and 197 other federal agencies are trying to take control through regulation. Frankly most things that affect your life, your family or your neighbors is controlled locally of by the State.....not the Federal Government.
You mean while Barack dined in golden palaces with their so-called 'leaders' you didn't feel a little bad to know millions of people who live in massive housing projects have to pay up to a week's salary to use a govt run facility with clean running water? Children drinking out of mud puddles doesn't tug at your heartstrings? Obama did a good job of ignoring their plight. No reason you should be any different. Yay India!
And so does the U.S. have a spacecraft circling Mars. In fact, the U.S. now has 3 and all 3 beat India to the Red planet. Happy for India....but they were not the first there; they were the 4th country to reach Mars. But with all their poverty, I'm sure they will achieve a lot of disapproval for spending money on this. But who knows....maybe it can somehow help them out of poverty. "NASA's Maven spacecraft entered orbit around Mars for an unprecedented study of the red planet's atmosphere following a 442 million-mile (710 million-kilometer) journey that began nearly a year ago. The robotic explorer successfully slipped into orbit around the red planet late Sunday night. "I think my heart's about ready to start again," Maven's chief investigator, Bruce Jakosky of the University of Colorado, said early Monday. "All I can say at this point is, 'We're in orbit at Mars, guys!'" Now the real work begins for the USD 671 million mission, the first dedicated to studying the Martian upper atmosphere and the latest step in NASA's bid to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s." "Maven joins three spacecraft already circling Mars, two American and one European. And the traffic jam isn't over: India's first interplanetary probe, Mangalyaan, will reach Mars in two days and also aim for orbit. India would become the fourth space program to reach Mars after the Soviet Union, the US and Europe." http://www.financialexpress.com/news/us-spacecraft-maven-enters-mars-orbit-india-probe-next/1292148
And the phone calls will suffer a relativistic delay of some minutes ... - - - Updated - - - For the chronicle, when the first US probe reached Mars, the USSR had already sent several probes there [Mars series], and years before ....
It's a great achievement to send a probe to Mars but India should have jumped ahead and sent at least one guy to actually land on Mars. It would have raised the bar and he could have claimed a chunk of territory for India. That would have given everyone else an incentive to do the same and space exploration would have really taken off.
Allof them failed prior to the US Mariner 4 mission (Mariner 3 also failed). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Mars#Missions http://www.vox.com/2014/9/24/6838079/india-mars-mangalyaan
But they arrived first [like it was a Russian the first human being to reach a low orbit ...]. I have always found curious the fact that some Americans, even if they live in the greatest civilization ever, want to make America even greater than it is ... megalomania?
