Isro Mangalyaan Mission

Hello sir, is there any one can tell me what is main mission of ISRO Mangalyaan? Provide me some detail about the mission of ISRO Mangalyaan?

The mission of ISRO Mangalyaan is also known as Mars Orbiter Mission. The Mars Orbiter Mission is the maiden interplanetary mission of ISRO, launched on November 5, 2013 by PSLV-C25 got inserted into Martian orbit on September 24, 2014 in its first attempt.

MOM completes 1000 Earth days in its orbit, today (June 19, 2017) well beyond its designed mission life of six months.

1000 Earth days corresponds to 973.24 Mars Sols (Martian Solar day) and MOM completed 388 orbits.

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Mission Objectives:

One of the main objectives of the first Indian mission to Mars is to develop the technologies required for design, planning, management and operations of an interplanetary mission. Following are the major objectives of the mission:

Technological Objectives:
Design and realisation of a Mars orbiter with a capability to survive and perform Earth bound manoeuvres, cruise phase of 300 days, Mars orbit insertion / capture, and on-orbit phase around Mars.

Scientific Objectives:
Exploration of Mars surface features, morphology, mineralogy and Martian atmosphere by indigenous scientific instruments.

Major results from the five scientific payloads on MOM are summarised:
Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM)
Mars Color Camera (MCC)
Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser (MENCA)
Thermal infrared Imaging Spectrometer (TIS)
Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP)

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