ISRO's Mars Orbiter to score a ton

India's first interplanetary mission MOM will complete 100 days around Mars tomorrow after it entered the Red Planet's orbit in September last.
The Mars Orbiter launched on November 5, 2013 onboard ISRO's PSLV C25 from Sriharikota entered the Martian orbit on September 24, 2014 after a nine-month long odyssey, making India the first country in the world to succeed in such inter-planetary mission in the maiden attempt itself.
Since then, the spacecraft has been sending data, including pictures of the terrain of the Red planet to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which are being received at Bangalore and being sent to Space Application Centre and Physical Research Laboratory, both located at Ahmedabad for analysis.

"Though the design of Mangalyaan is for a year i.E. Next September, it will continue to orbit around Mars depending on the fuel left in it," a senior ISRO official told PTI.
The Mars Orbiter was also lucky to capture the coma of comet 'Siding Spring' with the a colour camera on board for over 40 minutes as it made an appearance near the Red planet on October 19 last year.
The 1,350kg weighing (on Earth) craft has also taken pictures of one of the two Martian moons -- Phobos, while it was travelling west to east over Mars in its typical orbit.