Mangalyaan completes one year around the Red planet; ISRO releases Mars Atlas

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New Delhi: The Mars Orbiter spacecraft has successfully completed one year around the Red planet today.

The Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, is India’s first planetary mission to explore Mars and was designed, built and launched in a record period of less than two years.

MOM carried five science instruments collecting data on surface geology, morphology, atmospheric processes, surface temperature and atmospheric escape process.
Celebrating the successful completion Space Applications Centre, (ISRO), Ahmedabad has brought out a Mars Atlas which contains a compilation of images acquired by Mars Colour Camera (MCC) and results obtained by other payload results in a form of scientific atlas. The images are categorised depending upon the Martian surface and atmospheric processes.

mage: ISRO/ Shri A S Kiran Kumar, Chairman ISRO (centre) releasing the Mars Atlas with Dr. Y V N Krishnamoorthy, Scientific Secretary ISRO (left); Dr. Annadurai M, Director ISRO Satellite Centre, Shri Tapan Misra, Director Space Application Centre ISRO, Shri Deviprasad Karnik, Director Public Relations Unit ISRO
The large data set acquired by all five payloads of MOM have provided unique information about the Red planet to further explore possibilities of life on the closest celestial object to the Earth.

Mangalyaan completes one year around the Red planet; ISRO releases Mars Atlas - IBNLive

 

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Congratulations to isro:tup

 

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ISRO celebrates Mangalyaan’s first birthday

BENGALURU, SEPT 24:
India’s globally acclaimed Mars mission completed one year today with Indian Space Research Organisation releasing the Mars Atlas to mark the feat of the Orbiter whose life is now expected to last many more years.

It contains a compilation of images acquired by Mars Colour Camera (MCC) and results obtained by other payload in a form of scientific atlas.

ISRO will also be bringing out a book, ‘Fishing hamlet to Mars’ on November 5 to mark the anniversary of Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), whose success has boosted India’s global standing as a space power.

It was on this day last year that India scripted space history when it successfully placed its low-cost Mars spacecraft in orbit around the Red Planet on its very first attempt, breaking into an elite club of three nations.

The space probe entered the Mars orbit on September 24, almost a year after its launch, and made its home around the Red Planet.

European Space Agency (ESA) of European consortium, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US and Roscosmos of Russia are the only three other agencies which had so far sent their missions to Mars.

Only 21 of the total of 51 missions sent to Mars by various countries have been successful before MOM.

The Mars mission of the ISRO is aimed at establishing the country’s capability to reach the red planet and focus on looking for the presence of methane, an indicator of life in Mars.

The make-or-break tricky manoeuvre was carried out on this very date last year, with clockwork precision on the refrigerator sized spacecraft as planned in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who exultantly described it as “a historic occasion”, saying the country has achieved the “near impossible”.

The life of the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft which now ISRO says can last “many years” was earlier intended for only six months, and later extended for another six months in March this year.

ISRO celebrates Mangalyaan’s first birthday | Business Line

 

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RE: ISRO celebrates Mangalyaan’s first birthday

Actually its posted here Mangalyaan completes one year around the Red planet; ISRO releases Mars Atlas