India’s Mars probe Nicknamed “Mangal Yaan” 8-year mission completed | sorae Portal site to space

[▲ Conceptual drawing of India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft, nicknamed “Mangal Yarn” (Credit: Kevin Gill Flickr)]

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) dated October 3,The 8-year mission of the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has endedannounced that it had

MOM is“Mangalyaan”It is a Mars exploration mission by an orbiter known as a nickname. The mangal yarn launched by the “PSLV-XL” rocket on November 5, 2013,Successfully entered Mars orbit on September 24, 2014Did.At that time, the successful insertion of a probe into orbit around Mars was4th in the world, 1st in AsiaIt was a great achievement. MOM’s mission period was originally scheduled for six months, and it orbited an oblong orbit at an altitude of 422 x 77,000 km.

According to ISRO, eight years of MOM observations of the Martian surface and atmosphere have provided an understanding of the composition of the Martian exosphere, potential mechanisms leading to atmospheric outflow, and the dynamics of dust storms. In MOM, it was mounted on mangal yarn by taking advantage of the characteristics of the orbit“Mars Color Camera (MCC)”In addition to capturing global images of Mars using , we have also succeeded in taking the first image of the back side of the satellite Deimos.

According to ISRO and Indian daily The Times of India (TOI), Mangalyan lost communication with Earth after a long eclipse in April 2022.Mangalyan is designed to recover autonomously after an eclipse, and while it functioned normally in past eclipses, in this eclipseran out of propellantAs a result, the attitude could not be controlled, and the solar array could not generate power sustainably.lost powerIt is believed that

[▲ Global image of Mars taken by Mangalyaan’s Mars Color Camera (MCC) (Credit: ISRO)]

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• Image Credit: ISRO
• ISRO – UPDATE ON THE MARS ORBITER MISSION (MOM)
• TOI – Designed to last six months, India’s Mars Orbiter bids adieu after 8 long years
• lunar exploration information station – mangal yarn

Text/Matsumura Takehiro