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Indian Mars Mission Beams Back First Photographs

Posted by samzenpus on from the worth-a-thousand-words dept.

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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  1. Re:Frankly, those are some of the best visualizati by rahultyagi · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. The best photo... by bayankaran · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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    1. Re:The best photo... by Michael+Woodhams · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And here is the problem in a nutshell. Some women are pictured because they achieved something significant, and some idiot immediately derails the conversation with comments on how attractive they are.

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  3. Re:Proud of India... by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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