Mars Orbiter Mission completes 4 years: In pictures

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO’s) first interplanetary mission, completed 4 years on Monday. This mission made India the first country to enter the red planet’s orbit on its first attempt as well as the first Asian country to have sent a spacecraft into Mars’ orbit.


To mark the occasion, ISRO shared some pictures from the Mars Colour Camera (MCC) on board the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft (MOS).

In order to fulfil its mission of collecting data to study the Martian atmosphere and observe the red planet's physical features, the MOS also carries a thermal infrared imaging spectrometer, methane sensor for Mars, Mars exospheric neutral composition analyser and a Lyman Alpha photometer.

Here are some of the images that have been captured so far: