THE WORLDS LARGEST DEMOCRATIC POPULATED COUNTRY INDIA SENDS ITS OWN MARS ORBITER IN JUST TWO YEARS TIME FROM WHEN THE INDIAN PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN SINGH ANNOUNCED THE MARS MISSION–AND WHAT IS OBAMA NASA SPACE LEGACY- NONE TO MENTION AS NASA LIVES ON ITS PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND THE US POTUS THE ONLY POTUS WITHOUT A SPACE SHUTTLE SINCE CANCELLING IN LIEU OF HIS OBAMASCARE IT SEEMS THE POTUS BHO MISSION TO MARS LEGACY

NASA’s Mars mission was announced in September 2008, taking six years to reach the planet’s orbit.

Then-Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the country’s Mars aspirations in August 2012. A little over two years later, the first photos from Martian orbit arrived in Delhi.

Both the American and Indian missions are focused on solving the mysteries of the Martian atmosphere.

While Earth is surrounded by a rich, thick atmosphere of mainly oxygen and nitrogen, Mars is clad in a thin layer of mostly carbon dioxide.

But there are also traces of methane, which the sensors of the Indian craft will soon be inhaling for analysis.

“The large contributor of methane on Earth is living things,” said Ms Caprarelli.

“By looking at the distribution of methane around the planet scientists hope to figure out if there are some areas where to this day methane is being released and whether that indicates some kind of microbial activity.”

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