Saturday, November 8, 2014

CHAPTER - 04 - INDIA PLANTS ITS FLAG - EXPEDITION BEGINS

Maddy checks with the crew status both in the rocket pod as well as with the crew in mothership. 
With all things fine, Maddy checks the coordinates with the Mother ship's arial view - they find that they are close to 50 km away from their targetted landing site.
The greenhouse pods have landed some 3 km away from the landing site on the other side of the crater and the the rocket pod has landed near the edje of the 'Saagar' site - in diagonally opposite crater edge from the sister pod. 

The crew have to reach with the rocket pod to the landing spot to lodge back to the mothership when it takes off from Mars. 


But Maddy finds that one of the fuel pod had been lost in the sand storm and is swept away 10 km into the cretor from where they are.
They decide to take to rover in that direction, pick up the fuel pod and take the route through the cater to shave off 30 km to reach the sister pod on the other side of 
the crater.
If all things go as planned, they should be in the exact spot in another day, to set up the 4 green houses.
Once in there, they will be living inside the greenhouse for 7 days - repair the rocket pod and prepare to for lauching to get back to the mother ship when it flies back to dock the rocket capsule. 
Maddy decides to take along Prithvi, for the search and retreival of the fuel pod. But Priyanka insists she will also accompany them. Maddy agrees after some thinking.
All three prepare to land on the Martian surface. Maddy lands first followed by Prithvi and then finally by Priyanka. 
All three declare the place in the name of Humanity and plant the Indian national flag. 
The National Anthem plays in the background. Meanwhile in the mothership, the relay is recorded to be sent as signal to earth. It will take another 3 days for the signal to be telecasted to earth due to the disturbances due to the solar storm.
Zooming back to Mars, Maddy & Prithvi bring out the Mars rover vehicle parts to be assembled to the rocket pod to toe it to the sister pod. 

Priyanka, prepares the medical kit and also the sampling kits to pick up any samples. The gents assemble the parts and all three of them start in the rover to fetch the 
fuel pod in the way and reach the sister pods. They head down slowly into the crater to pick the fuel pod.


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