OTD in Space - September 24: India's 1st Mars Mission Reaches Orbit - video Dailymotion

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On Sept. 24, 2014, India's first interplanetary mission entered into orbit around Mars.  The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan, spent 10 months getting to Mars after it launched. It was mostly a technology demonstration that India's space agency orchestrated to prove they could send a spacecraft to Mars. But it also has some cameras and scientific instruments to collect data about the Red Planet.

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00:00On this day in space.

00:04In 2014, India's first interplanetary mission entered into orbit around Mars.

00:08The Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, also called Mangalyaan,

00:12spent 10 months getting to Mars after it launched.

00:15It was mostly a technology demonstration that India's space agency orchestrated

00:18to prove that they could send a spacecraft to Mars.

00:20But it also has some cameras and scientific instruments to collect data about the red planet.

00:24And that's what happened on this day in space.

00:30The Mars Orbiter Mission

OTD in Space - September 24: India's 1st Mars Mission Reaches Orbit

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