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Mars Orbital Mission(MOM)

January 6, 2021
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What is MOM?

  • The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan (“Mars-craft”, from mangala, Mars and yana, craft) is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
  • It is India’s first interplanetary mission[and it made the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after Roscosmos, NASA, and the European Space Agency. 
  • It made India the first Asian nation to reach Martian orbit and the first nation in the world to do so on its maiden attempt.
  • Mars Orbiter Mission was launched with the help of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C-25.

Mars Orbiter Mission – Objective of the Mangalyaan Mission  

The 4 Primary Objectives of the Mars Orbiter Mission are listed below.

  • Study of Martian atmosphere 
  • Study of Martian Surface Features 
  • Morphology 
  • Mineralogy.

Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) / Mangalyaan – Scientific Payloads

The MOM mission is primarily a technological mission to study various aspects of Mars. Hence the Mangalyaan mission carried 5 different scientific payloads which are listed below

  • Mars Color Camera (MCC)
  • Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM)
  • Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP)
  • Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (TIS)
  • Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser (MENCA)
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