On Sept. 24, 2014, India's first interplanetary mission entered into orbit around Mars.
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan, spent 10 months getting to Mars after it launched. It was mostly a technology demonstration that India's space agency orchestrated to prove they could send a spacecraft to Mars. But it also has some cameras and scientific instruments to collect data about the Red Planet.
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan, spent 10 months getting to Mars after it launched. It was mostly a technology demonstration that India's space agency orchestrated to prove they could send a spacecraft to Mars. But it also has some cameras and scientific instruments to collect data about the Red Planet.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:03In 2014, India's first interplanetary mission entered into orbit around Mars.
00:08The Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, also called Mangalyaan,
00:12spent 10 months getting to Mars after it launched.
00:15It was mostly a technology demonstration that India's space agency orchestrated
00:18to prove that they could send a spacecraft to Mars.
00:21But it also has some cameras and scientific instruments to collect data about the red planet.
00:25And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:28NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology