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Mars Orbiter Mission shifts orbit to take cover from Siding Spring | The Planetary Society

 

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On the lighter side!!

"I will be selling chai on Mars soon!" – The Express Tribune Blog
"I will be selling chai on Mars soon!"
By Sharoon Younas Published: October 14, 2014

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Under its 'eight planet chain' convention, China has the exclusive rights to any space territory that was charted by its ancient astronomers. PHOTO: REUTERS
Chinese authorities, on Friday, sent a letter to the UNOOSA (United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs), condemning the unashamedly cheerful celebration by the Indian authorities on the success of the recent Indian Mars mission 'Mangalyaan'. It accused the country of 'highly inappropriate' interference in its outer space affairs.

The letter from the Beijing foreign affairs committee said that, under its 'eight planet chain' convention, China has the exclusive rights to any space territory that was charted by its ancient astronomers.

This is not the first time the emerging Asian superpower has asserted its growing authority on disputed territories. It has previously laid claim to most of the islands of the South China Sea based on a nine-dashed line drawn by past Chinese cartographers.

Xi Jinping, the Chinese President, sternly confirmed this stance during his speech at the recent UN General Assembly meeting,

"Since it was our astronomer that mapped the sky first, China owns anything that can be observed with a student telescope. And that includes Pluto, planet or no planet."

Goh Gun Jagoh, an economics professor at Tsinghua University, connected this tussle to a broader struggle over natural resources and raw materials.

"China simply aims to construct quarry sites on the metal-rich asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter so that its factories back home can churn out more bendable iPhones than ever," he said proudly showing off his new wristwatch. "Seriously, who needs the Apple watch when you can simply bend your iPhone into a timepiece?"

India has shrugged off the Chinese allegations by hinting that Prime Minister Modi simply wants to carve out a place on Mars far enough for BJP traitors, Gujarat riot apologists and other undesirables to be exiled to, in case he fails to deliver on any of his ambitious promises.

The Indian public for now is obliviously gorging on 'mithai' to mark their historic achievement; it could care less about Rahul Gandhi sipping on martian mojitos millions of miles away.

Desi entrepreneurs have plans of their own for the red planet. Vishnu Patiwala, a tea stall owner in Delhi radiated optimism;

"Arey bhaiya, this is good na. Modi jee says it is cheaper to go to Mars by satellite than to travel to Lal Quila in a rickshaw. You mark my words; I will be selling chai on Mars soon!"

The US, with its usual tendency to meddle in any business accumulating dollars over, has unsurprisingly come to India's rescue, reprimanding China for flexing its muscles on its feebler neighbour. So much so, it placed an embargo on China, blocking all imports from the Asian nation until it softens its position on the space race.

Unfortunately, this move has backfired, since a whopping 20% of American imports are Chinese goods. As a result of the sanctions, a scene of utter chaos among prospective buyers outside an Apple store in New York was observed – it had run out of iPhones owing to a lack of supply.

"I'm going to go crazy", a tearful fan protested, "I've had iPhones all my life and I've been waiting in this line for a whole week. Now no phones left!" He was later seen tweeting about the development on his Huawei device.

Interestingly, one member of the international circus remains silent on this issue; Vladimir Putin has stayed suspiciously quiet on the race to deeper space. Perhaps he is heedful of the recent furore on Photoshopped pictures of celebrities – it is proving a lot more difficult to edit out failures these days. Regardless, an eventual Kremlin entry into this affair should not come as a surprise, the only fitting place to annex after Ukraine would be Uranus.

It remains to be seen who will emerge victorious in this battle for the heavens. All we know for now is that the radical group, Islamic Caliphate, has begun strapping thrilled volunteers to rockets in pursuit of an easier way to follow up on its promises to send fighters to a heavenly domain.

 

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Keeping my fingers crossed... very crucial hours ahead.

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I wonder if they got some pics....it's going to be very very hard to do something like this!

 

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Waiting for ISRO confirmation that Mangalyaan is hale and hearty.

Comet Siding Spring makes rare close pass by Mars as spacecraft watch

A comet from the outer reaches of the solar system on Sunday made a rare, close pass by Mars where a fleet of robotic science probes were poised for studies.

Comet Siding Spring passed just 87,000 miles (140,000 km) from Mars, less than half the distance between Earth and the moon and 10 times closer than any known comet has passed by Earth, NASA said.

The comet, named for the Australian observatory that discovered it last year, is believed to be a first-time visitor to the inner solar system, having departed the Oort Cloud, located beyond Neptune's orbit, more than a million years ago.

Comets are believed to be frozen remnants left over from the formation of the solar system some 4.6 billion years ago.

"This comet is on its way plunging in toward the sun, growing a tail," astronomer David Grinspoon, with the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, said during a live webcast of the comet's flyby on Slooh.com.

The comet made its closest approach to Mars at 2:27 pm EDT/1827 GMT, hurling past at about 126,000 mph (203,000 kph).

NASA's three Mars orbiters and two rovers, as well as orbiters owned by the European Space Agency and India were expected to monitor the comet's approach and fly-by, which may have left Mars engulfed in a cloud of comet dust.

"The comet has never ever been closer to the sun that we think maybe Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune's distance. This is its first passage into what we call the 'water-ice line,' where it's really starting to blow its water off," astrophysicist Carey Lisse, with Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland, told reporters during a press conference last week.

Initially, NASA was concerned the comet's dusty tail could pose a threat to orbiting spacecraft as it brushes past Mars. Later assessments somewhat allayed those concerns, but NASA still opted to tweak its satellites' orbits so that they would be behind the planet during the most risky part of the flyby.

"Mars will be right at the edge of the debris cloud, so it might encounter some of the particles, or it might not," NASA Mars scientist Rich Zurek, with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement.

Mars' atmosphere, though much thinner than Earth's, will shield NASA's Opportunity and Curiosity rovers from comet dust, which may trigger meteor showers.

Mars also will pass directly through the comet's coma, which is an envelope of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus, providing an unprecedented opportunity for study, Grinspoon said. "This is a really rare event."

I wonder if they got some pics....it's going to be very very hard to do something like this!

 

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First image of the Earth by Mars Color Camera (MCC) of Mars Orbiter Spacecraft taken on Nov 19, 2013 at 13:50 hrs (IST) from 67975 km altitude with a resolution of 3.53 km


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Waiting for ISRO confirmation that Mangalyaan is hale and hearty.

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Orbiter is okay!

 

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Mars Spacecraft Survive Close Encounter with Comet Siding Spring

वाशिंगटन। नासा का मंगल यान एक दुर्घटना का शिकार होने से बाल-बाल बच गया। दरअसल मंगल ग्रह की कक्षा में घूमने वाले नासा के तीन यान के समीप से गुजर रहे धूमकेतु ने धूल छोड़ दी। इस धूल से यान बालबाल बच गया। बताया जा रहा है कि जोखिम के दौरान प्रत्येक यान ने लाल ग्रह के माध्यम से अपना बचाव किया।

नासा के मार्स ओडिसी, मार्स रिकानिसांस आर्बिटर और मार्स एटमास्फियर एंड वोलाटाइल एवोल्यूशन (मावेन) आबिर्टर तीनों यान उस अभियान का हिस्सा हैं जो धूमकेतु सी:2013 ए1 सिडिंग स्प्रिंग और उससे निकलने वाली गैसों एवं धूल से मंगल के वातावरण पर पड़ने वाले प्रभावों का अध्ययन करने के लिए गये हैं।

नासा के सबसे नए यान मावेन ने इस बात का एहतियात बरता कि धूमकेत से निकलने वाली धूल के दुष्प्रभावों से खुद को बचाते हुए इसके कारण मंगल के वातावरण पर पड़ने वाले प्रभाव का अध्ययन किया जा सके। धूमकेतु से तेज वेग से निकलने वाले धूल कणों से आशंकित टकराव से बचने के लिए तीन घंटे तक एहतियात बरतने के बाद मावेन अंतरिक्ष यान ने तीन घंटे के बाद पृथ्वी को बेहतर स्थिति में सूचनाएं भेजी। - See more at: दुर्घटना का शिकार होने से बाल-बाल बचा नासा का "मंगल यान" - Mars spacecraft survive close encounter with comet siding spring -Patrika.com

 

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This is good news, and thanks for sharing. Now merging with the existing thread.

 

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Mars Orbiter Mission begins collecting science data

MUMBAI: The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has kicked off its science phase and its five payloads are gathering data in full swing, said director of Isro's Space Application Centre, Kiran Kumar. The MOM entered the Martian orbit on September 24 and made history by achieving success on its maiden flight. Google celebrated the first month the orbiter's entry to Mars with a doodle on October 24. Speaking to TOI on Wednesday, which marked the first anniversary of the MOM launch on November 5, 2013, Kumar said the data downloaded from the spacecraft at the Indian Deep Space Network in Byalalu, off the BangaloreMysore highway, is being transmitted to the principal investigators for analysis. Kurian Mathew, principal investigator of the Methane Sensor For Mars, said: "We are analyzing data from both from Mars and comet Siding Spring. We will highlight them at an appropriate moment." The Methane Sensor For Mars has been described as the "bridegroom" of all the payloads as its findings are expected to have huge ramifications. Indian Space Science Data Centre's general manager J D Rao could not hide his excitement. "We are anxiously waiting for the results," he told TOI on Wednesday. The quality of the pictures taken by the Mars Colour Camera in the last one-and-half month has attracted considerable praise from across the world. However, for some unexplained reason the first anniversary of MOM's launch on Wednesday remained a quite affair with no mention of it in Isro's Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Mars Orbiter Mission begins collecting science data - The Times of India

 

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@cobra commando, do you have the Google Doodle? If you do, please share. I think I might have missed it.

 

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@cobra commando, do you have the Google Doodle? If you do, please share. I think I might have missed it.

 

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India's Mangalyaan Among Best Inventions of 2014 - The New Indian Express

 

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India's Mars Orbiter Team Wins US Award

CHENNAI: India's Mars Orbiter programme team has won the 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the science and engineering category from the US based National Space Society (NSS), the society said. In a statement issued in Washington on Monday, the NSS said its 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the science and engineering category has been won by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Mars Orbiter Programme team. "This award will be presented to an ISRO representative during the National Space Society's 2015 International Space Development Conference, the 34th ISDC, to be held in Toronto, Canada," the statement said.
The conference will run from May 20-24. According to the NSS, India's Mars Orbiter launched Nov 5, 2013 that went into Mars orbit Sep 24, 2014 achieved two significant mission firsts in terms of an Indian spacecraft that has gone into orbit around Mars on the very first try and that no other country has ever done this. Secondly, the spacecraft is in an elliptical orbit with a high apoapsis, and has a high resolution camera which is taking full-disk colour imagery of Mars. Very few full disk images have ever been taken in the past, mostly on approach to the planet, as most imaging is done looking straight down in mapping mode. These images will aid planetary scientists. The Mars Orbiter programme team located in Bangalore is headed by Mylswamy Annadurai, the statement said. The NSS is an independent non- profit educational membership organisation dedicated to the creation of a spacefaring civilization.

India's Mars Orbiter Team Wins US Award

 

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I have of late been reading up on the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called by its Sanskrit name Mangalyaan or Mars-craft, and I must say that I'm impressed. This is a great technical achievement by India and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ought to be congratulated for this excellent accomplishment. Not only is India the first Asian nation to achieve Mars orbit but it is the first country to do so on its first attempt. Not even NASA, the European Space Agency, or the Soviet space agency could do it first go. Congratulations, ISRO! Way to go! :thumb: