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The ISRO Chairman, who is also Secretary in the Department of Space and Space Commission Chairman says, "Mars with its many similarities to Earth is an important mission prospective for ISRO." "Our Mars Orbiter will take almost 300 days to reach the intended Martian orbit, and the long flight of the craft through space is indeed challenging. This will prove ISRO's technological capability of sending a spacecraft so deep into space," he says.