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The great success of the lunar landing, may have triggered confidence of ISRO to go ahead with another landing- next time on Mars. And hence the Venus mission pushed back.
No, Mangalyaan-2 was planned way earlier than Venus mission.
Any official details about the Mars lander program are known? (sorry for offtopic)
No, just a proposal which is probably is yet to undergo study.
Shukrayan has been pushed for 2031. Not because of MLM, but because of the launch time management. If we had launched it this year itself, it would have been better. But it was found that the optimal position of Venus comes every 8 years.
It comes every 19 months actually. ISRO wants an advanced robotic mission for Shukryaan with aerobots (drones and lander probably) instead of just orbiter hence a long term proposal was adopted and 3 timelines arr estimated to be skipped per missions in between.

Gaganyaan and sustained human spaceflight (repeated Gaganyaan or space station) is priority over any planetary mission and has pushed timeline of everything ahead.
If rover is confirmed then it looks like ISRO has gained confidence in landers.
As per news from 2021 mangalyaan 2 is only a orbital mission.
Mangalyaan-3 and not Mangalyaan-2 was supposed to have lander per what Somanath said last time. ISRO wanted to send a massive multi tonne orbiter like MAVEN to Mars.

Even if proposals might have changed, don't expect any Mars lander anytime soon. Mars lander will have to be built entirely different to face friction and heat of Martian atmosphere (which Chandrayaan did not have to worry about). And then, there are Gaganyaan & Chandrayaan-4 and many other priority missions in line.

And yes, landing a rover on Mars is a pinnacle of robotic spacecraft technology. So is sending humans in space.
 

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No, Mangalyaan-2 was planned way earlier than Venus mission.

No, just a proposal which is probably is yet to undergo study.

It comes every 19 months actually. ISRO wants an advanced robotic mission for Shukryaan with aerobots (drones and lander probably) instead of just orbiter hence a long term proposal was adopted and 3 timelines arr estimated to be skipped per missions in between.

Gaganyaan and sustained human spaceflight (repeated Gaganyaan or space station) is priority over any planetary mission and has pushed timeline of everything ahead.

Mangalyaan-3 and not was supposed to have lander per what Somanath said last time.

Even if proposals might have changed, don't expect any Mars lander anytime soon. Mars lander will have to be built entirely different to face friction and heat of Martian atmosphere (which Chandrayaan did not have to worry about). And then, there are Gaganyaan & Chandrayaan-4 and many other priority missions in line.

And yes, landing a rover on Mars is a pinnacle of robotic spacecraft technology. So is sending humans in space.
sending humans to space is the real pinnacle of space exploration....you can afford to loose a robot, but not a human life.... generally people don't understand this
 

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sending humans to space is the real pinnacle of space exploration....you can afford to loose a robot, but not a human life.... generally people don't understand this
Maintaining manned space stations, rendezvous docking with superior environment control & safety and more advanced robotics landing rovers on Mars & Jupiter/Saturn moons, imagine the mind boggling combination and cost of these two things, landing humans on Mars.
 

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This is the significance of discovery of Sulphur by Pragyan rover
  • The presence of significant amounts of sulfides in the lunar mantle would control how much of chalcophile (sulphur loving) elements would be on the lunar mantle(e.g., Ni, Cu, Se, As, Cd, In). These are are essential components of many aspects of modern technology (e.g., photovoltaic cells, batteries, wind turbines etc.)
  • The abundance of sulfur in the lunar mantle also has important implications for the range of plausible light element (S, C) abundances of the lunar core.
taken from -r/ISRO
 

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This is the significance of discovery of Sulphur by Pragyan rover
  • The presence of significant amounts of sulfides in the lunar mantle would control how much of chalcophile (sulphur loving) elements would be on the lunar mantle(e.g., Ni, Cu, Se, As, Cd, In). These are are essential components of many aspects of modern technology (e.g., photovoltaic cells, batteries, wind turbines etc.)
  • The abundance of sulfur in the lunar mantle also has important implications for the range of plausible light element (S, C) abundances of the lunar core.
taken from -r/ISRO
Hoping it finds hydrogen
 

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It comes every 19 months actually. ISRO wants an advanced robotic mission for Shukryaan with aerobots (drones and lander probably) instead of just orbiter hence a long term proposal was adopted and 3 timelines arr estimated to be skipped per missions in between.
Shukrayaan I will be an orbiter mission. Its scientific payloads currently include a high-resolution synthetic aperture radar and a ground-penetrating radar. The mission is expected to study Venusโ€™s geological and volcanic activity, emissions on the ground, wind speed, cloud cover, and other planetary characteristics from an elliptical orbit.
 

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well my friend the below mentioned cry of despair will be heard far and wide across the whole of Brittin that daaay.
" Rule britaaaaaniaaaa , brittaaaaaaaniaaaaaaa rules the waves re re reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..............."
Other western nations have now stopped ridiculing Indiabon its space missions.. but good old.. POMMIES still manage to get their panties in a twist every time.
 

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