Successful launch of the Indian spacecraft to Mars

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after the mission sent by +European Space Agency, ESA, Mars Express, and after the mission sent by +NASA, curiosity, and the missions Mars2 and Mars3 sent by Russia, India is the fourth country to send a mission to the red planet. The India's Mars Orbiter Mission, the Mangalyaan probe is a spacecraft powered by solar arrays and packed with five instruments to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars. The 1350 kg of the spacecraft has been launched with success from a pad at the agency's Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota this morning.

Credits: +TIME 

Those instruments include a color camera for photographic imaging, a spectrometer for surface composition and mineralogy analysis and a methane sensor.

We will provide you more details in the next hours, stay tune.

Lava flows frozen in time on the biggest Volcano on the Solar System

Credits: +European Space Agency, ESA by Mars Express

There was some floodwaters on Mars

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The spacecraft launch by +European Space Agency, ESA, called Mars Express has revealed from great pictures that floodwater occurred on Mars 3 billions years ago. The picture shows the mosaic, which features the spectacular Kasei Valles.

Credits: +European Space Agency, ESA 

The spacecraft has been send by ESA June 2nd 2003 in order to orbit around the red planet. This mission is dedicated to the orbital study of the interior, subsurface, surface and atmosphere, and environment of the planet Mars.

The total initial Mars Express budget excluding the lander was €150 million; however, 10 years after its liftoff, Mars Express continues to send some data from Mars to scientific.