Nasa’s InSight Lands On Mars ‘With 1 lakh Indians’

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    • Publish Date: Nov 28 2018 1:41PM
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    • Updated Date: Nov 28 2018 3:47PM
Nasa’s InSight Lands On Mars ‘With 1 lakh Indians’

 Around 1.30am on Tuesday, 1,38,899 Indians ‘landed’ on the flat Elsium Planitia region of Mars after travelling for six months in Nasa’s InSight ( Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission.

Don’t get it wrong. It was not a manned mission. The names of these space-crazy Indians had been etched on a silicon wafer microchip using an electron beam to form letters with lines one-one thousandth the diameter of a human hair. This tiny chip was attached to the top hull of the lander. The over one lakh Indians who had responded to a call from Nasa to participate in the flight were provided online boarding passes by the space agency. 
 
Some people posted an image of their boarding card on Facebook
 
 
 
Details provided by Nasa showed that the total number of names received from all over the world was 2,42,9807. India ranks third in the global list, the first being the US with 6,76,773 names, followed by China with 2,62,752 names.
 
On Tuesday, when InSight executed a soft touchdown on the surface of the Red Planet after slamming the Martian atmosphere at a whopping 12,300 mph and slowing down to five mph in just six-and-a-half minutes, India had one more reason to celebrate: for the post-landing operations, one of the key figures is an Indian — Ravi Prakash, a systems engineer with Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
 
In an interview to TOI , he said: “InSight will be the first mission to use a robotic arm to place instruments on the surface of Mars. We feel confident we can place these instruments on Mars ,” he said. 

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Amogha M Koulapure STJ PU COLLEGE

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.indiatimes.com/technology/news/how-1-38-898-indians-and-i-got-nasa-s-insight-probe-to-carry-our-names-to-mars-on-a-coin-chip-357502.html

Amogha M Koulapure STJ PU COLLEGE

total of 1,38,899 Indians have successfully sent their names to Mars, along with over 2 million people from all over the world, earning a very rare set of bragging rights in the process.

Amogha M Koulapure STJ PU COLLEGE

According to NASA, 2,429,807 people from all over the world entered their names to be sent to Mars through the InSight Lander. Unsurprisingly, a sizable chunk of the names on that chip which is now on Mars are from India - third only after United States (6,76,773 names) and China (2,62,752).

Amogha M Koulapure STJ PU COLLEGE

time, I think I missed the fact that NASA was actually going to laser etch the names of everyone who participates through an electron beam on a silicon wafer, where every letter being as tiny as one-thousandth the width of a human hair, and attach it to the Mars InSight Lander and send it to the Red Planet. All of this sounded super cool, but that was that. I forgot about the whole thing, thinking it was all just a publicity stunt by NASA

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