On Tuesday, India began its first mission to Mars. In about 10 months, we'll find out if India joins the small and elite group of space explorers (the Europeans, the former Soviet Union, and NASA) who have successfully sent probes to the Red Planet. The Indian Space Research Organization launched its first interplanetary spacecraft today, hoping to study the loss of water from Mars, investigate methane gas, and collect data about Phobos and Deimos, Mars's two moons, CNN reports. The project is called the Mars Orbiter Mission (a.k.a. "If the satellite orbits the Red Planet, India's space agency will become the fourth in the world after those of the US, Russia and Europe to undertake a successful Mars mission," the BBC reports.
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