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100 Days of MOM – India’s 1st Mars Mission Streaking to Red Planet Rendezvous
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) completes 100 days in space on February 12, 2014 on its journey to reach the Red Planet on September 24, 2014. Credit ISRO
India’s maiden Mars explorer, the Mars Orbiter Mission or MOM, celebrated 100 days speeding through space this past week, racing outwards on its historic journey to the Red Planet.
After streaking through space for some ten and a half months, the 1,350 kilogram (2,980 pound) MOM probe will rendezvous with the Red Planet on September 24, 2014 – where she will study the atmosphere and sniff for signals of methane.
Feb. 12, 2014 marked ‘100 Days of MOM’ since the picture perfect blast off on Nov. 5, 2013 from India’s spaceport at the (…)
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Post tags: India space program, ISRO, Mars, Mars MAVEN, mars orbiters, MOM, NASA
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/109412/100-days-of-mom-indias-1st-mars-mission-streaking-to-red-planet-rendezvous/
