The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), informally called Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: मंगलयान, English: Mars-craft) by the media, is a planned Mars orbiter to be launched in November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The mission is a "technology demonstrator" project aiming to develop the technologies required for design, planning, management and operations of an interplanetary mission more info: facebook.com/earthXzone
