India's historic first mission to Mars celebrates one year in orbit
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 06:30
in Astronomy & Space
India's historic first mission to Mars is now celebrating one year orbiting the Red Planet and may continue working for years to come. During year one the spacecraft was highly productive, achieving its goals of taking hordes of breathtaking images and gathering scientific measurements to study Mars atmosphere, surface environments, morphology, and mineralogy.