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uzoexcel: India has become the first nation to reach Mars on its maiden attempt after its Mars Orbiter Mission completed its 10-month journey and successfully entered the Red Planet’s orbit. bit.

The Indian Space Research Organization’s unmanned drone, also called Mangalyaan, was programmed by Indian engineers to fire its main engine and eight smaller thrusters for 24 minutes, starting at 0147 GMT in order to make the spacecraft's final maneuvers into Mars' orbit.

The spacecraft has executed the arrival sequence autonomously with engineers receiving the telemetry with 12-and-a-half minute delay at ISRO's control center in Bangalore due to the 139 million miles separating Earth and Mars.

“History has been created today,” said Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. “We have dared to reach out into the unknown and have achieved the near-impossible. I congratulate all ISRO scientists as well as all my fellow Indians on this historic occasion.”

On the orbit, the unnamed probe is set to study Mars’ surface and scan its atmosphere for evidence of some sort of life. The probe is expected to circle Mars for six months, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) from its surface. Its five scientific instruments will collect data and send it back to Earth.

The Mangalyaan is equipped with a color imaging camera, a thermal infrared spectrometer to measure the chemical composition of the surface, and instruments to assess the Mars atmosphere, including a methane detector.

The Mars Orbiter Mission, a low-cost $74 million project, blasted off from Earth on November 5, 2013, aboard an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. At its initial stage, the rocket booster placed the probe into Earth's orbit before the craft fired the engines to break free of Earth's gravity en route to Mars.

This is India's first mission into such deep space to search for evidence of life on the Red Planet. But the mission's primary objective is technological – if successful, the country will be joining an elite club of nations: the United States, Russia and Europe.

Source: http://rt.com/news/190096-india-mars-orbiter-probe/
picTure 3 depicts the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientists and engineers monitor the movements of India's Mars orbiter at their Spacecraft Control Center in the southern Indian city of Bangalore (Reuters / Stringer)


Their first attempt and with local indian engineers. and also To think that it costs just $74 million.And we supposedly have $20 billion missing

barcanista: You are only talking like a religious bigot. What is the PRIMARY duty of any government?

egift: Tell Jonathan to use the Front door during the day and stop climbing people backyard fence at night in search of illegal arms. grin grin grin

If they need any military gear, he should go to the manufacturers and stop the 3rd party illegal deal.

barcanista: KICK OUT PDP

This is the solution

wallflower: If that person person had any sense they would have wondered how come the population of the world keeps increasing.

wallflower: The simple fact is that the Northerners have always been their own enemies, they cause problems for themselves then look for who to blame it all on, for example, do you know that polio has a 99% eradication rate? there are only three countries left that still has cases of polio, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, and in Nigeria it can only be found in Northern states, why? because they chased health workers away when they were making rounds for polio vaccination.
This is an example of being too set in your ways.
How do you expect to grow if you reject development?.

Leerikz: sometimes i ask myself, was it my fault that i was born into a northern family??, life seems to hold nothing for a young hopeful northern born child like me,i was born in a rural area in zamfara state,a typical Hausa community, i was raised accordingly by my parents, on getting to my teenage years, it dawned on me that everything seemed to follow one pattern in my community, it was compulsory for everyone to follow the Muslim faith, it also seemed compulsory for every male indigene to marry from the same community, i observed the whole life process here, everything seemed the same, nothing different ever happened, men were born local and died local, the whole community lacked innovation, nobody ever thought of anything new, life was an everyday process which everyone had to follow. there was hardly any form of electricity supply in my community, power was supplied on very rare occasions, and on such white collar days, the whole village would gather at the village square to watch tv, most times news, probably to everyone else, they were having fun and expressed it with big grins on their faces, when they saw big cities like lagos, kano, abuja and the rest on television, to me, it was like watching a totally different world, most of the things i saw on television were non-existent in my community,good roads, water supply, electricity and the rest. It all seemed alien-like when i saw them, the schools we had in my community seemed like death traps, with the buildings dilapidated and slowly collapsing due to age, i used to imagine how old those buildings must be, not to talk of the kind of teachers we had, most of them took extra holidays and came to school whenever they wished, we were mostly taught Islamic doctrine and a little bit of arithmetic and English to go with, you would wonder where we the students got our motivation to keep attending school, it all seemed that school seemed to be the most exciting thing happening around us, even though we could not say we had even up to quarter of what you would regard as a stellar education. I myself had dreams to be different, to make my community a happening place, to make my family proud of me, to help all kids in my community have standard education, to put good roads and water in place for my people, but as i grew up, i faced reality and it dawned on me that my dreams would eventually amount to nothing, 'where would i start from?' was the question i asked myself frequently, i was willing to do anything to actualize my dreams, but everytime i tried to muster a little hope for the future, my dreams were dashed by reality .life went on like this for a long while until something happened sometime in August 2008,a group of men came to our community school and separated the male folk from the female folk, we were told that a lot is going to change in our lives in the next few months and advised to prepare for anything.The lessons we were having at school changed totally,we were now lectured in the reason why our lives and community had come to be like this, we were told by our instructors that our kind was hated and neglected in the whole of Nigeria, we were shown videos of how our kind performed roles of servants to the society in urban areas, how our kind seemed to poverty stricken and isolated in such towns and cities, we were told that we would be in the same situation if we tried traveling to such places in search of greener pastures. Therefore we had to do something that would make our lives and that of our families better, we were told that if we cooperated, our families would be rewarded with huge amounts of money and life would get better. We were then told that it would involve killing and suicide bombing for our plans to really work out. Already our minds were prepared for anything. That was how we took up arms to fight for better lives for ourselves and for our families.So next time you want to open your mouth to judge the youth who have joined boko haram,think of the situation of this young man, think of the plight of his family and underdevelopment that had eaten deep in to lives of everyone in their community. live positively!.
.This was written by a young Nigerian.. Just looking at things from the other point of view.. I am in no way supporting insurgency of any kind.. Share your thoughts

ISpiksDaTroof: The Bible is still the single most violent book ever produced in the history of man.

venabili: y did u av to bring Islam into this? Why do pple of a supposed "peaceful religion" show so much enthusiasm for religious intolerance?
And d verse u even cited shows u probably never read it urself because that verse preaches self-defence.
By d way, if u tnk Allah is violent, what do u tnk of the God of Israel dt commanded the genocide of the amalekites? The bible is strewn wt such verses and d history of xtianity is nt unblemished. It wil take islam 3 hundred years to kill d number of pple dt has been killed in the name of xtianity.
Try to be tolerant.

Frankestein08: then y re u sayin Gov Yero is supposed to kill d non muslims he's relating wit & also promotin it wit dat chapter in d quran

virtual7: Reading through d comments and i find out dat here is full of pathetic fools.
cant you people think with ur heads? was it elrufai dat hired oritsejafors jet to buy arms for boko haram?
is it elrufai dat cant account for $20m?
im sure non of you starting from d op to the remaining buttlickers know anything abt elrufai.and yu cant divert our attention from ur bling bling can president who s buying arms for bh

Rapsainot: what are you doing on my profile?

Frankestein08: *laffs* BH are just bunch of misguided humans who apparently according yo you are doing what you said ur quran says so I guess u guys worship same allah.

Frankestein08: oh pls stfu, dat book was written by man not God.

Frankestein08: God will never tell you to kill another but instead he said love one another even your greatest enemy...u've bin mislead or u choose to be mislead.

Rapsainot: Daniella okocha, daughter of Austin okocha, I will surely marry you.... Quote me

INSTINCTS: To the WHAT!?.

iamord: Lol
Hell no!!
His profile says he\she is female. But the post have been like that of a guy talking.

iamord: Same question I have been asking myself

kilokeys: waiting for d ladies to flood here and agree with d 16 year old op.. while they are 35 still having bfs up and down.. *brings out village bench*

Baddestguyp: we are here already.




now op, u said u don't care but you created a topic, isn't that contradictory? fact is, e dey pain you

the reason we are against woman wrapper-ing is cos it makes some ladies feel too big, they see we guys as nothing cos they feel there are hundreds of guys out there dying for them. it is an embarrassment to guys when you see ur fellow guy succumb so low to ladies just to get their attention.

we're not saying u can't compliment or flirt a little but u gotta do it sensibly. u should have a little pride at least. put girls in their place if need be.
thanks