The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Mars Orbiter Mission in November 2013, using their Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle to place the spacecraft into an Earth orbit. Over the next four weeks, the spacecraft used its thrusters to raise its orbit until it escaped Earth's gravity in December 2013. It arrived at Mars in September 2014 and entered a highly elliptical orbit that allowed it to photograph one Martian hemisphere at a time. Onboard instruments included a camera, infrared sensor, and spectrometers to study the atmosphere and search for methane.
The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Mars Orbiter Mission in November 2013, using their Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle to place the spacecraft into an Earth orbit. Over the next four weeks, the spacecraft used its thrusters to raise its orbit until it escaped Earth's gravity in December 2013. It arrived at Mars in September 2014 and entered a highly elliptical orbit that allowed it to photograph one Martian hemisphere at a time. Onboard instruments included a camera, infrared sensor, and spectrometers to study the atmosphere and search for methane.
The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Mars Orbiter Mission in November 2013, using their Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle to place the spacecraft into an Earth orbit. Over the next four weeks, the spacecraft used its thrusters to raise its orbit until it escaped Earth's gravity in December 2013. It arrived at Mars in September 2014 and entered a highly elliptical orbit that allowed it to photograph one Martian hemisphere at a time. Onboard instruments included a camera, infrared sensor, and spectrometers to study the atmosphere and search for methane.
The Indian government approved the Mars Orbiter Mission
(MOM) project in August 2012, a 15 months before launch. ISRO was able to keep mission costs down by basing MOM’s design on that of Chandrayaan-1 India’s first moon probe. Because the PSLV did not have the power to place 1350 kg (3000 pounds) probe on a direct trajectory the spacecraft used low-power thrusters to raise its orbits over a period of four weeks until it broke free of Earth’s gravity on December 1 and headed to Mars.
It arrived at Mars on September 24, 2014 and the spacecraft
entered a highly elliptical orbit of 423 * 80000 km ( 262*50000 miles),which allows it to take picture of one entire Martian hemisphere at a time. The spacecraft’s instruments are a colour camera, a thermal infrared sensor, an ultraviolet spectrometer to study deuterium and hydrogen in Mars upper atmosphere a mass spectrometer to study neutral particles in the Martian exosphere and a sensor Methane ( Methane’s presense may indicate, but not necessarily, life) MOM arrived at Mars in time to observe Comet spiding spring when it flew by the planet at a distance 132000 km (82000 miles) on October 19,2014.