India's Mangalyan was sent to the Mars by launching it into a transfer orbit EOM around the sun. It leaves the earth at and meets Mars at . If the semi-major axis of Earth's orbit is , that of Mar's orbit , taking Kepler's laws, give the estimate of time for Mangalyan to reach Mars from Earth.
India's Mangalyan was sent to the Mars by launching it into a transfer orbit EOM around the sun. It…
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Solution
From Kepler's law,
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Asked in: JEE Main 2014 (09 Apr Online)