Mangalyaan-2 mission: Know all about the payloads and their tasks.

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ISRO is now preparing for the Mangalyaan-2 mission, the second Mars orbiter mission, with four crucial payloads. Know all about them and their tasks.

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ISRO is now developing the payloads for the Mangalyaan-2 mission after 9 years of its first Mars mission, the Hindustan Times reported, quoting an official.

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The first Mars mission aimed to enter the orbit of the red planet and after various hurdles and efforts the mission was successful.

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Now, the second Mars Orbiter Mission has greater objectives that will unravel the mysteries of Mars’s atmosphere.

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According to reports, the ISRO’s Mangalyaan-2 mission will consist of four payloads which will conduct various studies on Mars. The four payloads have been named MODEX, RO, EIS, and LPEX.

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The MODEX payload stands for Mars Orbit Dust Experiment which will study the origin, abundance, distribution and flux at high altitudes on Mars

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The RO payload is the Radio Occultation experiment which will be designed to measure neutral and electron density profiles.

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The third payload is an Energetic Ion Spectrometer (EIS) that will study the solar energy particles and supra-thermal solar wind particles of Mars.

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The last payload is a Langmuir Probe and an Electric Field Experiment (LPEX) which will measure the electron number density, electron temperature and electric field waves.

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More about the Mangalyaan-2 mission will be disclosed by ISRO. So far the space agency has not shared anything about the mission.

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We hope that ISRO will soon be sharing the details mission and its objectives.