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India is preparing to launch its second spacecraft to Mars - nine years after it made history by successfully sending a rocket into orbit around the "Red Planet" on its first attempt.
The Mars Mission 2 orbiter, informally named Mangalyaan-2, will carry four instruments to conduct research including interplanetary dust, the atmosphere and the environment of Mars. These instruments are at different stages of development, an Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) official said on October 2.
India is expected to carry out the Mars Orbiter Dust Experiment (MODEX), Radio Occultation Experiment (RO), Energy Ion Spectrometer (EIS) and Langmuir and Electric Field Exploration Experiment (LPEX) in this second mission. The results of the study could help explain the dust flow on Mars, whether there are any hypothesized rings around Mars and also confirm whether the dust is interplanetary or comes from Phobos or Deimos (two moons of Mars). The study of dust could help explain the results of the RO experiment,” he said. Meanwhile, the RO experiment is being developed to measure the electron and neutral density profiles. The instrument is essentially a microwave generator operating in the X-band that could help understand the behavior of the Martian atmosphere.
ISRO researchers are also developing EIS to characterize solar energetic particles and superheated solar wind particles in the Martian environment. The instrument will measure high-energy charged particles.
LPEX will allow measurements of electron number density, electron temperature, and electric field waves, all of which will provide a clearer picture of the plasma environment on Mars.
On November 5, 2013, India launched the Mangalyaan spacecraft to explore Mars and it took the spacecraft 11 months - until September 24, 2014 - to reach the planet's orbit. The spacecraft carries five scientific instruments to study the surface features, morphology, minerals and atmosphere of Mars.
With the success of this mission, ISRO became the fourth space agency in the world to put a spacecraft into Mars orbit and the first to do so on its first launch. Although designed to last for 6 months, the spacecraft completed a 7-year mission in orbit in 2021 before “retiring”.
According to Tin Tuc newspaper