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Outer space (is also simply called as “space”) has always caught humans’ imagination.
We went to Mars not because of our technology, but because of our imagination.
Norman Cousins
*American author and political journalist had once famously said this after successful Viking Mission. Viking was a pair of American space probes that provide significant amount of information during 1990 to early 2000, http://www.astrodigital.org/mars/whymars.html, accessed on Nov 1, 2012.
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Any satellite (or a probe) which travels to a distance of 100,000 km or more from the earth’s surface is known to have entered the region which is normally depicted as deep space. This is the region beyond the gravitational influence of Earth encompassing interplanetary, interstellar and intergalactic space. As per astronomical definition, this region is any region of outer space beyond the system of the Earth and Moon. However, when put in the context of distance, the Earth’s Moon could be viewed to be in the deep space. Refer [7]
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Lele, A. (2014). Introduction. In: Mission Mars. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1521-9_1
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