National Aeronautics and space Administration (NASA) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have join their hands to launch missions for exploring mars in future.

According to USA this is very beneficial for both the countries as well as for the whole world at large.

NASA and ISRO collaborates on Mars exploration after the Historical Achievement of ISRO

In the International Astronautical Congress,ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden were met and signed a charter to establish a NASA-ISRO Mars working group for enhancing their cooperation in the future exploration of Mars.

In that particular congress,they signed the two documents first to launch a NASA-ISRO satellite mission to observe the Earth and also establish a pathway to launch joint missions in future to explore mars.

NASA Administrator believed that this strong commitment between the two must be very helpful and yield a tangible benefits to both the countries as well as the whole world.

As the both countries recently sent their spacecrafts to the mars, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) arrived on mars on 21 September, 2014 and ISRO Mangalyaan Also Known as Mars Orbital Mission (MOM) was placed just after the three days of arriving the MAVEN that is 24 September, 2014,So this is the main focus of joint mars working group to identify the common goals of NASA and ISRO and implement the scientific,programmatic and technological aspects of both.The target become easy when they both work as a team and observations comes out more earlier and science analysis takes less time.

One more International Agreement signed between them that defines how the two space agencies will work together on NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)mission that has targeted to be launch in 2020.

The NISAR mission will make global measurements of the causes and consequences of the land surface changes while observing the Earth.And also target their research on potential areas including ecosystem disturbances,ice sheet collapse and natural hazards. Basically the NISAR will be designed in such a way that it uses two different radar frequencies(L-band and S-band) that measures changes in the Earth surface with the accuracy of less than centimeter. This allows the mission to observe a wide range of changes on earth varying from the flow rates of glaciers and ice sheets to the dynamics of earthquakes and volcanoes.

Under this agreement the L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR),A high rate communication subsystem for science data,GPS receivers and a solid state recorder will be provided by NASA and the S-band SAR,spacecraft bus and the launch vehicle with associated launching services are from the ISRO side.

In 2008,NASA and ISRO signed a agreement under which they are cooperating with each other and successfully doing variety of activities in space sciences such as two NASA payloads-the Mini-Synthetic Aperture Radar(mini-SAR) and the Moon mineralogy Mapper,on ISRO’s Chandrayaan-1 mission to moon in 2008