India conquer Martian space!!!

[kaka_in_usa]

Re: India conquer Martian space!!!

@TLK

First of all, there is no prominent region of our solar system that has already not been covered. I know that fly by missions do not send back as much of data as an orbital or landing missions, but still Voyager 1 and 2 pretty much took care of all the planets, and Jupiter and Saturn moons are also visited through several missions.

Sending a mission to Mars by India may not look very value added - as Mars is already pretty well covered through dozens of missions, including the rover missions - but it sends a very strong signal to the rest of the world about the country’s capabilities, especially from defense point of view. When NASA sent a rocket to the moon, its intention was less to learn about the moon, and more to tell USSR (remember that it was a cold war era) that if we can target the moon from 240000 miles away and hit it with pinpoint precision, we can send a nuclear warhead to Kremlin with even greater ease.

India is a nuclear power, and they showed it to the whole world through the famous Smiling Buddha test in 1974, but what good that warhead is if you can’t mount it on a decent rocket and send it on its way to Islamabad or Beijing. So targeted space missions are the next show offs of the nuclear capable countries. It’s a subtle threat, hidden behind a scientific mission.

Our solar system and outer planets are largely unexplored. Flyby missions only give you superficial ideas but real deal is to get in physical touch with them.

Venus is as far as mars and only few probes made it to the surface and that too lasted few minutes. ISRO has an opportunity there, far side of mercury, return samples from any celestial object other than moon, drilling the snow sheet of europa, rover on any planet other than mars will be the first, riding a comet, hard landing on sun, tons of moons of outer planets, sending manned mission on any planet etc are few examples of how less we have covered the solar system. Build upon what NASA and other agencies have learned and comeup with something new.