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.
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.
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