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Indian Mars Mission Beams Back First Photographs
astroengine writes India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) got straight to work as it closed in on Martian orbit on Tuesday — it began taking photographs of the Red Planet and its atmosphere and surface as it slowed down to reach its ultimate destination. After a two day wait, those first images are slowly trickling onto the Internet.
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Are you talking about most of those false color images on that page? If so, they are actually not from this mission. Most of them (probably all except the first one) are from MRO's HiRISE camera.
and yet, still more interesting than anything you post.
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The best photo is not of Mars...but the women workers of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) handling the Mars mission celebrating.
BBC has a good report and the photo...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-29357472
As a tweeter asks..when was the last time we saw women scientists celebrating a space mission?
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Slashdot commenters have gone downhill. Congrats to ISRO, Indians, and humanity as a whole. Let's not let the bigots hold us down.
An article with exactly one image from India's mission, and a slide show of false color images from NASA that most slashdotters think were from MOM.
I expected at least a few more images hinted at by the summary. It will be interesting if they can capture some of the more controversial spots to provide independent confirmation of what NASA has been telling conspiracy buffs for the past few years.
To the Indian government though, I suggest the next project be here on planet earth:
That is, to make public toilets as easily available as every other space power.
1) China is a space power. Not exactly know for the quality & quantity of rural public toilets.
2) If everyone waited to solve every domestic issue before becoming a space power, noone would have developed rockets yet. I think you would be astonished by the poverty that existed in Appalachia or other rural isolated areas in the US when their space program started. Ditto for Europe (portugal / greece) and Russia (almost everywhere).
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You don't get it. This is not a scientific achievement, but an engineering one.
It cost a few cents per Indian - I think they can afford that. Congratulations India!
India arguably needs to be a tech powerhouse more than the US does. It faces tougher problems with fewer resources; it has to do more with less. It already has a huge middle class, but it needs to grow that middle class to bring capital in for the even huger underdeveloped portions of its society.
I wish them well. Nations becoming more technologically capable is not a zero sum game.
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wow, this thread went south quickly. space exploration is important and interesting to most intelligent people whether they are religious or not. the fact that india accomplished this feat using less money than other space programs is a tribute to their ingenuity and technical abilities. even if all they get is a couple of pictures of mars, that is way better than many countries on a first attempt. i wish them luck (and skill) for this and future endeavors.
So does Indian Mars look anything like American Mars?
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There are already satellites with good camera's orbiting Mars, so it's smarter to allocate the mass budget of a new orbiter to different types of sensors, rather than clones of stuff we already have.
You are correct, we know what it looks like, and I said as much too, but new photos of Mars look good on the news and remind us things like this are worth funding.
To be sure, NASA did some nice animations to fill the gap.
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