By-SRUSHTI SHARMA
India is getting ready to launch another spacecraft to Mars, according to Indian Space Research Organisation officials.
This comes nine years after India made history by becoming the first country to successfully launch a rocket into orbit around Mars.
The Mars Orbiter Mission-2, referred to as Mangalyaan-2, would transport four payloads.
The scientific instruments would research the Martian atmosphere and environment as well as interplanetary dust.
An official said, "All of these payloads are in various stages of development."
On September 24, 2009, India made history by becoming the first country to orbit Mars. Until that point, no other space agency had managed this feat.
The second mission will carry the Langmuir Probe and Electric Field Experiment (LPEX), the Energetic Ion Spectrometer (EIS), the Radio Occultation experiment, and the Mars Orbit Dust Experiment (MODEX).
The space agency is also working on an EIS to describe supra-thermal solar wind particles and solar energy particles in the Martian environment.
This will aid in the understanding of the causes of the Martian atmosphere's disappearance by scientists. The device will measure charged particles with high energy.