India Launches Mars Mission

India has launched a space probe bound for Mars, seeking to become one of only a few nations with missions that reached the Red Planet. The India Space Research Program said its unmanned spacecraft went into the Earth's orbit 44 minutes after launch from the southeastern island of Sriharikota, on the start of a 300-day journey to Mars. The orbiter will gather data to help determine how weather systems work on Mars. It also will investigate what happened to the water that is believed to ...

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