Mars Orbiter Mission Mangalyaan completes one year on Mars

Mars Orbiter Mission ‘Mangalyaan’ of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has helped put India on the elite global space club and it is celebrating the first anniversary of Mars Orbit Insertion by releasing an atlas of images taken by the Mars Color Camera (MCC) and some results from the Mars Methane Sensor.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 24 September 2015.

Mangalyaan had been launched on 5 November 2013 by ISRO and was successfully inserted into the Red Planet orbit on 24 September 2014, after a 298-day transit to Mars. That made ISRO become the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after the Soviet space program, NASA, and the European Space Agency.
Moreover, this successful Mars mission meant that India became the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first country in the world to do so in its first attempt.
The life of Mangalyaan had, initially, been estimated to be six months. But, from present indications, it could last for many more years since it still has 35-Kg of fuel left.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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