Indian satellite flew to Mars – Utro.Ru

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has published the first pictures Mars , made spacecraft Mangalyaan, reports BBC News.

Photographs “Red Planet”, made from a distance of 7300 km, the craters are visible as dark depressions on the surface of an orange. Images posted on the official websites of the Indian Space Research Organization in social networks. (See. ISRO page in Facebook).

Earlier it was reported that India was the first country in the world that has managed to bring the probe to Mars orbit on the first try.

As reported by the Western media, other countries have taken a total of more than 40 such attempts, but only about 20 of them have been successful.

Mangalyaan on Monday examined the operation of the engine, and Wednesday at 7:47 am (6:15 Moscow time) entered the orbit of Mars.

Sputnik became the first Indian spacecraft launched to another planet. Its task is to study the surface and the composition of the Martian atmosphere, photography, as well as testing of new technologies for missions to Mars. The satellite will help determine whether there is methane on the planet, and whether there was once water. As expected, the device with 15 kilograms of scientific equipment will work in Mars orbit for about six months.

satellite was launched on November 5, 2013 from the Space Center Satish Dhawan, located on the island of Sriharikota in Bengal Gulf. The project cost about $ 74 million. At the same time, Time magazine cites the fact that the mission has cost India $ 67 million and was the cheapest of all the similar launch vehicles to Mars.

Recall that on Monday at NASA reported that the American scientific satellite MAVEN after ten months of travel and entered orbit around Mars.

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