Joining the MAVEN probe this year is another orbiter, the first Indian mission to Mars.
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Launched in November 2013, the probe enters a highly elliptical orbit
of 500 x 80,000 km around Mars in September 2014. The payload of 25 kg
consists of ten instruments – including a colour camera, infrared and
thermal analysers, a radiation spectrometer, methane sensor, and a
Plasma and Current Experiment. Controversy surrounds the mission,
however, in light of foreign aid to alleviate the country's ongoing
poverty and social problems.
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