What is Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan

 

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan, is a space probe launched by the Indian Space Research Organization on November 5, 2013. 

 

Mangalyaan was India's first interplanetary mission. The indigenously-built space probe has been in the Martian orbit since September 24, 2014. The mission made India the first Asian country, and the fourth in the world after Roscosmos, NASA, and the European Space Agency, to get to the planet. China referred to India's successful Mangalyaan as the "Pride of Asia".

 

On November 23, 2008, the then-ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair acknowledged Isro's Mars mission.  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the project on