Bengaluru :India and the US today discussed the possibilities of collaboration in future Mars exploration projects and other space missions.
The Mars Working Group of the two countries, which met today, sought to identify and implement goals that NASA and ISRO share on Mars exploration, particularly coordinated observations and science analysis between MAVEN, the Mars Mission of NASA, and ISRO’s MoM.
“Our countries established a Mars Working Group to investigate further cooperation for Mars exploration. The third face-to-face meeting concluded in Bengaluru.
“The Mars Working Group seeks to identify and implement goals that NASA and ISRO share on Mars exploration, particularly coordinated observations and science analysis between MAVEN and MoM and NASA’s other Mars projects,” Richard Verma, US Ambassador to India, said.
“We can continue exploring Mars together. Our engineers can jointly develop a space craft to study the surface of Mars. Our scientists can work together, study the and analyse the data and learn even more about the Red planet. Let’s go further in our solar system. Our nations could build together space craft to reach other planets in our solar system,” he said.
PTI