Mangalyaan-2 mission: How ISRO’s second mission is uniquely different from NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter
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ISRO is planning a second Mars Orbiter Mission which has been dubbed Mangalyaan-2 mission. Know how this project is different from NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter.
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ISRO has been planning the Mangalyaan-2 mission for a long time now with the aim of exploring the planet’s environment and atmosphere.
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The Mangalyaan-2 mission and NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter have various similarities as both are designed to study the climate or we can say the environment of Mars.
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The Mars Climate Orbiter studied Mars for 2 years and gave insights into the planet’s atmospheric dust and water vapour along with pictures of climate changes.
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The NASA mission also aimed to provide Mars’ climatic history and evidence of water. However, the ISRO’s MOM-2 will be studying the interplanetary dust, and the Martian atmosphere and environment.
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Mars Climate Orbiter collaborated with the Mars Polar Lander to study the atmosphere, climate and surface of the Red Planet.
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ISRO's Mangalyaan-2 mission will be conducting in-orbit studies with the help of four payloads and installed instruments.
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The Mangalyaan-2 mission payload includes the Mars Orbit Dust Experiment (MODEX), Radio Occultation, Energetic Ion Spectrometer (EIS), and Langmuir Probe and Electric Field Experiment (LPEX).
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As per reports, the Mangalyaan-2 payloads are in different stages of development.
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ISRO is yet to reveal information about the Mangalyaan-2 mission.
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Furthermore, ISRO will also be planning a Mars rover mission just like the Moon lander and rover during the highly successful Chandrayaan-3 mission.