{"id":16069,"date":"2012-07-16T07:53:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T12:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16069"},"modified":"2012-07-16T07:53:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T12:53:54","slug":"aggressive-target-for-indias-space-program-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/16\/aggressive-target-for-indias-space-program-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggressive target for India&#8217;s space program: Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>The Register<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/07\/16\/india_mission_mars_november_2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Muncaster<\/a> reports on what is rumoured to be the next stage of India&#8217;s space program:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not to be outdone by China in the space race, India is set to flex its muscles on the world stage, planning a mission to Mars late next year.<\/p>\n<p>K Radhakrishnan, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told reporters on Saturday that there will be a definitive announcement on the scientific research-based project by the government soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of studies have been done on the possible mission to Mars. We have come to the last phase of approvals,&#8221; he said, according to <em>Times of India<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed Mars mission will apparently be focussed on the Red Planet\u2019s origins and evolution, its climate and geography and whether life can be sustained there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Register, Phil Muncaster reports on what is rumoured to be the next stage of India&#8217;s space program: Not to be outdone by China in the space race, India is set to flex its muscles on the world stage, planning a mission to Mars late next year. K Radhakrishnan, Chairman of the Indian Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,44],"tags":[342,716],"class_list":["post-16069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-space-science","tag-mars","tag-spacecraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4bb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16070,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069\/revisions\/16070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}