Isro's Mars Orbiter Beams Back Image of Dust Storm Activities

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By Press Trust of India | Updated: 30 September 2014 11:05 IST
India's Mars orbiter has sent a picture of regional dust storm activities over the northern hemisphere of the Red Planet, Isro said on Monday.

"Regional dust storm activities over northern hemisphere of Mars - captured by Mars Color Camera on-board Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)", Bangalore-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said on its official Facebook page with a picture.

It said the image was taken from an altitude of 74,500km from the surface of Mars.

MOM spacecraft had sent its first images of the planet on Thursday, a day after creating history by becoming the only such endeavour so far to have met with success on the maiden attempt.

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The Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission aims to study the Martian surface and mineral composition and scan its atmosphere for methane, an indicator of life.

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The spacecraft is equipped with five instruments, including a sensor to track methane or marsh gas, a colour camera and a thermal-imaging spectrometer to map the surface and mineral wealth of the planet.

The Rs. 450-crore MOM is the cheapest interplanetary mission. India is the first country to reach Mars in its very first attempt. European, American and Russian probes have managed to orbit or land on the planet, but after several attempts.

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The orbiter will keep moving in an elliptical path for at least 6 months with its instruments sending their gleanings back home.

The spacecraft was launched on its 9-month-long odyssey on a homegrown PSLV rocket from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on November 5, last year. It had escaped the Earth's gravitational field on December 1 and was placed in the Martian orbit on September 24.

 

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