{"id":25318,"date":"2016-12-29T05:58:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T05:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/?p=25318"},"modified":"2016-12-29T05:58:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T05:58:49","slug":"english-in-a-first-all-indian-crew-set-to-experience-mars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/?p=25318","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->In a first, all-Indian crew set to experience Mars<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->MUMBAI: After making history with the Mars Orbiter Mission, India is now set to embark on a simulated Martian environment where participants experience the challenges of a manned mission to the red planetFor the first time, an all-Indian crew will take part in a two-week Mars-related research assignment between January 28 and February 12, 2017, at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah, US. This was confirmed by Michael Stoltz, Mars Society&#8217;s chief spokesperson, to TOI. The MDRS, organised by the US-based Mars Society , was launched in 2001 and, in the past 16 years, nearly 1,000 youngsters from all over the world have participated in the programme.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last2brdiv\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"last1brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>MDRS is a Mars-analog test site which has a prototype of a habitat that will house humans on Mars and serves as a test bed for Martian exploration. The research projects of the Indian team will include assessing &#8220;the degree to which human-associated bacteria could potentially contaminate the Red Planet during a manned mission and measure the impact of dust storms.&#8221;<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: After making history with the Mars Orbiter Mission, India is now set to embark on a simulated Martian environment where participants experience the challenges of a manned mission to the red planetFor the first time, an all-Indian crew will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25319,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25318\/revisions\/25319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25318"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=25318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}