{"id":158675,"date":"2014-10-21T17:28:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=158675"},"modified":"2014-11-21T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T19:31:49","slug":"india-reaches-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/india-reaches-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"India reaches Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mangalyaan spacecraft, owned by India\u2019s space agency, successfully entered its orbit around Mars on September 24. \u201cWe\u2019ve made history today,\u201d Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said from the mission control room in Bangalore. The probe was developed in just three years at the low cost of $74 million (R$178 million). The United States\u2019 MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) probe, which entered orbit around the Red Planet two days before the Mangalyaan, cost $ 671 million. Prime Minister Modi even joked about the cost of the probe, pointing out that it was cheaper than the budget for the film \u201cGravity.\u201d The 1.5-metric ton Mangalyaan will collect data for the next six months. Its onboard equipment will measure methane in the Red Planet\u2019s atmosphere. The leaders of the mission acknowledge that scientific ambitions are less important than a demonstration of the country\u2019s technological capability. \u201cIt was an impressive feat of engineering, and we welcome India into the family of nations studying the Red Planet,\u201d NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a press release. India is the first country to put a satellite into orbit around Mars on its first attempt. Previously this had been done only by the European Space Agency, a collaboration of countries. Japan and China have tried unsuccessfully to send probes to Mars. The United States and Russia have done so successfully, but unlike India, the probes failed on their inaugural voyages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India’s space probe reaches the planet Mars","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[205],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-158675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-astronomy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158675"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=158675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}