Mangalyaan - Mars-craft -Mars Orbiter Mission - MOM

Mangalyaan- Mars-craft- Mars Orbiter Mission

MOM is Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) First interplanetary mission to Mars.


IRSO released the first picture of Mars taken by its onboard Mars colour Camera. The picture was taken from a height of 7300 kms
ISRO's Twitter handle relased the pic with a comment saying 'the view is nice up here'.



Launched in Nov 2013
Mars Orbit in Sep 2014
Orbital period 3.16 days
Travel: 372 x 80,000 kms
Pictures by: ISRO

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