What are they Martians?
What are they Martians?
September 24, 2014, the pre-dawn silenceThe Indian city of Bangalore cut the thunder of applause from people in crimson jackets. And it was by no means a meeting of the new Russians, nostalgic for the dashing nineties. The event was much more global for the whole world.
India successfully completed the IOM program (Mission toorbit of Mars) and withdrew its Mangalian probe into the orbit of the red planet, in honor of which such a specific dress code was installed in the Mission Control Center.
The cost of the project is amazing - it's only $ 67 million. So, on the well-known blockbuster "Gravitation" was spent about 100 million dollars. And all the shooting took place on the ground.
India managed to launch the probe from the first time and not lose it. Now we can speak of this country as one of the leaders in the study of Mars.
Russia, unfortunately, is very hard at masteringterritory of the red planet, and her last attempt to explore Mars, launched on November 8, 2011, ended another fiasco. The Russian interplanetary station "Phobos-ground" burned down in the earth's atmosphere, never leaving the near-earth orbit. I would like our space ships and probes to go through the cosmic space of the red planet, but even the prospects of the Russian Martian program are rather vague.
