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India’s Historic 1st Mission to Mars Celebrates 1 Year in Orbit at Red Planet
MOM celebrates 1 Year at Mars
Olympus Mons, Tharsis Bulge trio of volcanoes and Valles Marineris from ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission. Note the clouds and south polar ice cap. Credit: ISRO
India’s historic first mission to Mars is now celebrating one year orbiting the Red Planet and may continue working for years to come. During year one the spacecraft was highly productive, achieving its goals of taking hordes of breathtaking images and gathering scientific measurements to study Mars atmosphere, surface environments, morphology, and mineralogy.
The Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, is India’s first deep space voyager to explore beyond the confines of her home planets influence and successfully arrived at the Red Planet after the “history creating” orbital insertion maneuver on Sept. 23/24, 2014 following a ten month interplanetary journey from Earth.(…)
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Post tags: ISRO, Mars, Mars Color Camera, Mars MAVEN, Mars Orbiter Mission, MCC, MOM, NASA, PSLV, red planet, valles marineris
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/122512/indias-historic-1st-mission-to-mars-celebrates-1-year-in-orbit-at-red-planet/
