Mars Orbiter Mission completes 2 years around Mars

The country's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has completed two years around Mars. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said that the mission has accomplished its planned mission objectives.

At present, the MOM and all its scientific payloads are in good health and it continues to provide valuable data regarding the planet's surface and its atmosphere.

After a 300 days journey in deep space, on September 24, 2014, India's Mars Orbiter Spacecraft has successfully entered into an elliptical orbit around planet Mars. With successful Mars orbit insertion, Isro had became the fourth space agency to successfully send a spacecraft to Mars