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New Delhi: As NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in the early hours of Friday to look for signs of past life, ISRO's next mission to the Red Planet is likely to be an orbiter.
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Perseverance, the biggest and the most advanced rover ever sent by NASA, made its landing at Jezero Crater.
After its successful Mars Orbiter Mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) called for 'Announcement of Opportunities' on Mars Orbiter Mission-2.
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'It is now planned to have the next orbiter mission around Mars for a future launch opportunity,' according to the Announcement of Opportunities.
But there are other major projects that are lined up. After the Mars Orbiter Mission's success, ISRO also decided to explore Venus.
However, the immediate priorities of ISRO remain to be Chandrayaan-3 and Gaganyaan - both projects have been delayed due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
Under Chandrayaan-3, ISRO will once again try to land a rover on the Moon. The mission was to be launched late last year.
Chandrayaan-2 did not yield expected results as the lander hard-landed, dashing India's hopes to successfully land on the Moon.
ISRO plans to send three humans to space by 2022 under the Gaganyaan (human space) mission.
The India France Joint Vision for Space Cooperation' also mentions about the possible collaboration to explore Mars.
'CNES and ISRO, with the support of Laboratoire de meteorologic dynamique (LMD, CNRS), will jointly work on the modelling of Mars and Venus atmospheres,' the vision statement said.
Mangalyaan or Mars Orbiter Mission was India's first endeavour to successfully reach another planet. The launch vehicle, spacecraft and ground segment cost Rs 450 crore, one of the cheapest missions to Mars so far.
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Designed to work for six months, the mission has completed over six years.
The Mars orbiter has sent thousands of pictures totalling more than two terabytes.
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is India’s first interplanetary mission to Mars. The indigenously built spacecraft was designed to orbit Mars in an elliptical orbit. As India’s first foray into interplanetary missions and space exploration, MOM is primarily a technological mission designed to show that India has the technical capability to get a spacecraft to Mars. ISRO is raising the bar by launching MOM into orbit around the red planet; ISRO scientists will be studying the critical mission operations and stringent requirements on propulsion and other spacecraft systems.
One of the main objectives of the first Indian mission to Mars is to develop the technologies required to design, plan, manage and operate an interplanetary mission. Technological Objectives include deep space communication, navigation, mission planning and management with autonomous features incorporated to handle contingency situations. Scientific Objectives include exploration of Mars surface features, morphology, mineralogy and to scan scan Martian atmosphere for methane, which is produced here on Earth primarily by living organisms.
ISRO thanked NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on their Facebook page for their goodluck wishes. Credit: NASA/JPL/ISRO.
India’s MOM spacecraft is arriving at Mars just days after NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN spacecraft (MAVEN), which entered orbit around the Red Planet on Sunday Sept. 21, 2014. Like MOM, the MAVEN probe will study the Martian atmosphere, but its goal is to understand the behavior of atmospheric elements in the upper reaches in response to solar activity.
“As the first orbiter dedicated to studying Mars’ upper atmosphere, MAVEN will greatly improve our understanding of the history of the Martian atmosphere, how the climate has changed over time, and how that has influenced the evolution of the surface and the potential habitability of the planet,” said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. “It also will better inform a future mission to send humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s.”
The following is the official statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM):
“We congratulate the Indian Space Research Organization for its successful arrival at Mars with the Mars Orbiter Mission.
“It was an impressive engineering feat, and we welcome India to the family of nations studying another facet of the Red Planet. We look forward to MOM adding to the knowledge the international community is gathering with the other spacecraft at Mars.
“All space exploration expands the frontiers of scientific knowledge and improves life for everyone on Earth. We commend this significant milestone for India.”
For more about ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission, visit http://www.isro.org/pslv-c25/mission.aspx
For more about the MAVEN mission, refer to http://www.nasa.gov/maven
Posted by: Soderman/SSERVI Staff
Source: ISRO