India launches space ship to Mars, leaving Australia on the launch pad

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India is set to launch its first ever probe to Mars tonight. The unmanned probe’s main mission hopes to detect traces of methane which could help prove the existence of some sort of primitive life form. But if a developing country can be in the forefront to the space race, space experts in Australia argue that Australia should get in on it too.

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