Mars Orbiter completes a year around red planet

Although scientists have been claiming that yet the recorded and sent signals of MOM Mangalyaan have to be corroborated for the final confirmation which may rewrite the history of life in the universe as known the humans with India’s low-priced mission ending the long wait. The Rs 450-crore mission was launched on November 5, 2013, through the PSLV C25 from the Sriharikota space station.

The Mars Orbiter Spacecraft carried five scientific instruments to collect data on atmospheric processes, morphology, surface geology, morphology, atmospheric processes, atmospheric escape process and surface temperature.

On the occasion of first anniversary of the successful launch of Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission), Fox Star Studios will host a special screening of Ridley Scott’s “The Martian” for scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and their families. A few stunning, never seen before images of the Red Planet have been sent by the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) during its operation in the mission. Over 100 images from a collection of 350 acquired by the Mars Colour Camera on the spacecraft have been compiled in a form of a scientific atlas.

All five payloads of MOM have acquired a large data set during this period, it said.

With Mangalyaan circulating Mars, ISRO joins the Soviet Space Program, the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA as the only space agencies having reached Mars.

Mangalyaan captured this photo of the Martian atmosphere just after arriving at Mars on September 24, 2014. India became one of only four countries whose space agencies have successfully reached Mars.

ISRO released image of Tyrrhenus Mons in Hesperia Planum region taken by its Mars Color Camera (MCC) on 25-02-2015 at a spatial resolution of 166m from an altitude of 3192km.

According to AS Kiran Kumar, the chairperson of ISRO, MOM will orbit Mars for more years than previously estimated. Further extensions are likely; ISRO officials have said that Mangalyaan has enough fuel onboard to keep studying Mars for years to come. Earlier, the mission was intended for only six months and later extended for another six months in March this year.