ISRO (Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan)

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Something different from TCS...Now, its related to our country...Proud to be an INDIAN...

India created history on September 24, 2014, becoming the first country to successfully get a spacecraft into the Martian orbit on its maiden attempt.

Here are 10 things you should know about the Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan:- 

1. Before India, various countries have launched Mars missions, but out of the 51 attempts, only 21 were successful. India now joins the Martian club that comprises the US, Russia and the European Space Agency. 

2. US space agency NASA was one of the first to congratulate ISRO on its success. Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a congratulatory speech highlighting the success and hard work of the ISRO scientists.

3. After the Mars mission, the Indian space agency will work together with Chinese space scientists to prepare a road map for a series of missions to be implemented together. ISRO chief's K. Radhakrishnan's tenure will come to an end by the time of 2014. The first three months of 2015 might see Radhakrishnan practice Kathakali.

4. A methane sensor will look for sources of the gas. While the Mars color camera clicks away, a thermal infrared spectrometer will study heat emission, minerals and soil on Mars. 

5. India's MOM is the cheapest inter-planetary mission. It cost about a tenth of NASA's Mars mission Maven that entered the Martian orbit on September 22. Mr. Prime Minister Narendra Modi applauding Indian scientists had said, "Hollywood movie Gravity costs more than our space mission." 

6. The spacecraft structure and propulsion hardware configurations are similar to Chandrayaan-1, which was country’s first successful robotic lunar probe. Specific improvements and upgrades were made for a Mars specific mission. 

7. The most important experiment is to check for the presence of methane that can indicate just what kind of life existed on Mars, if at all. 

8. The orbiter, after a 300-day flight, has covered a distance of 680 million kilometers to reach the Red Planet's orbit. 

9. As it goes around Mars on an elliptical orbit with the closest point around 420 km and the farthest around 80,000 km, MOM will employ five equipment that collectively weight 15 kg to do scientific studies.

10. The spacecraft trajectory would be tracked from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory facilities at Goldstone (US), Madrid (Spain) and Canberra (Australia).

!!! Proud to be an INDIAN !!!