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ISRO’s MOM: Incredible facts, far-fetched video
ISRO’s MOM: Incredible Facts, Far-Fetched Video. The anxiety of every Indian has come to a conclusion with the success of the Mars Orbiter Mission, prestigiously undertaken by ISRO.
The anxiety of every Indian has come to a conclusion with the success of the Mars Orbiter Mission, prestigiously undertaken by ISRO. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had prestigiously undertaken the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) with the sole scientific objective of exploration of Mars surface features, morphology, mineralogy and Martian atmosphere by aboriginal scientific instruments, besides many technological aspects. After completing an interplanetary journey of more than 10 months covering a distance of 484.67 million miles (780 million km), The Mars Orbiter Mission - more aptly known as Mangalyaan - entered orbit around Mars on Tuesday.
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As far as Indian space technology is concerned, it is India’s first interplanetary mission and, as the mission became successful, ISRO became the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after the Soviet space program, NASA, and the European Space Agency.
The success of MOM has not only proven the ISRO’s calibre to the entire world but once again given indication of India’s supremacy in Satellite technology.
Some of the incredible facts about ISRO’s MOM are appended below:
- India is the first country in the world to have succeeded in putting a probe into Mars’ orbit in the very first attempt.
- The success of the mission has congealed India’s standing as a competent and low cost base for sophisticated engineering.
- At Rs 450 Crore for 780 Million km, the mission cost about Rs 5.77 per km. That is cheaper than what many auto-rickshaws charge in the country.
- This is, hands down, the most cost effective Mars Mission to have ever been undertaken.
- The odds were stacked against us. Of the 51 Mars missions attempted across the world so far, 21 have failed. But we nailed it.
- On an average, every Indian has probably contributed about Rs. 5 per person towards the mission.
- N.A.S.A. took 5 years to complete its “Maven” Mars Orbiter. The I.S.R.O. took just 15 months to complete Mangalyaan.
- They even managed to make it weigh about 1,350 kilograms. That’s less than your average S.U.V.
- India joined the U.S, Europe and Russia in an elite group of countries to have successfully undertaken a mission to Mars.
