Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, sends back stunning pictures!


The India Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched their Mars Orbiter, called Mangalyaan, November 2013 and it entered Mars the following September.  India became the fourth space agency to reach Mars, the first Asian country to put a probe in orbit around the planet and the first country to do so on its first attempt. 

The cloud formation (arrow in above photograph) is seen around Ascraeus Mons, the northernmost and tallest of three shield volcanoes, known as the Tharsis Montes in the Tharsis region of Mars.






Bakhuysen Crater



Three linked Craters of Mars



Juventae Fons and Baetis Chasma - Terrains on planet Mars

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