India's mission to mars completes four years

India’s Mission to the planet Mars’ orbit, “Mission Mangalyaan”, also known as the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has completed four years on Monday.

The mission which was only expected to survive for six months after being inserted into Mars’ orbit, has surprised on and all by capturing the seasonal variations of the red planet for two Martian years.

India’s Research and development company, Indian Space Research



Organisation (ISRO) in a tweet published two photographs clicked by the Mars Orbiter and mentioned that the Mars Colour Camera has acquired more than 980 photographs from of the Red planet.

The Rs 4.50 billion-mission was launched with the PSLV-C25 rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on November 5, 2013. After crossing more than 660 million km in 300 days, it entered into the Mars orbit on September 24, 2014.