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Three Indians boys on Mars mission
Three Indian boys are among nine student scientists selected by the Planetary Society, USA, from over 10,000 entrants worldwide to serve on the planetary society`s `Red Rover goes to Mars training mission`.
Three Indian boys are among nine student scientists selected by the Planetary Society, USA, from over 10,000 entrants worldwide to serve on the planetary society`s ‘Red Rover goes to Mars training mission’.
The boys are: 15-year-old Shaleen Rajendra Hartalka, from Udaipur, in the senior group; 13-year-old Tanmay Sanjay Kirwadkar, of Nagpur, in the junior group and 10-year-old Vikas Sarangadhara of Bangalore in the sophomore group, an ISRO press release said. Of the other six students selected, two are from Hungary and one each from the USA, Brazil, Taiwan and Poland. Of the nine selected are five boys and four girls. The nine were chosen from a field of 80 semi-finalists, representing 16 nations. In all, 44 nations participated in the contest.
The students will programme a camera on a spacecraft in orbit around Mars to take pictures of the surface and will select a possible landing site on mars for the future sample return mission. They will work with imaging data from NASAs Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft currently in orbit around Mars to choose a candidate-landing site on Mars.
In early 2001, they will travel to Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, California. There, they will take pictures of their site on Mars with the MGS Mars orbiter camera.
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The boys are: 15-year-old Shaleen Rajendra Hartalka, from Udaipur, in the senior group; 13-year-old Tanmay Sanjay Kirwadkar, of Nagpur, in the junior group and 10-year-old Vikas Sarangadhara of Bangalore in the sophomore group, an ISRO press release said. Of the other six students selected, two are from Hungary and one each from the USA, Brazil, Taiwan and Poland. Of the nine selected are five boys and four girls. The nine were chosen from a field of 80 semi-finalists, representing 16 nations. In all, 44 nations participated in the contest.
The students will programme a camera on a spacecraft in orbit around Mars to take pictures of the surface and will select a possible landing site on mars for the future sample return mission. They will work with imaging data from NASAs Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft currently in orbit around Mars to choose a candidate-landing site on Mars.
In early 2001, they will travel to Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, California. There, they will take pictures of their site on Mars with the MGS Mars orbiter camera.
Bureau Report