ISRO Mars Orbiter sent back fabulous photos of the Red Planet .Mars is home to craters and soaring peaks, and gets its reddish hue from oxidised iron minerals.
ISRO’s Mars Orbiter, which took this picture, has now been in orbit for four years.
The space agency said the Mars Colour Camera had acquired more than 980 images.
ISRO says a planet needs lush, steamy jungles or azure seas to captivate the senses? Mars, our rusty neighbour, seems to manage just fine. It’s home to craters and soaring peaks, and gets its reddish hue from oxidised iron minerals. Just feast your eyes on these photos, taken by the Mars Colour Camera (MCC) on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) Mars Orbiter a spacecraft that has now been in orbit for four years.
This photo was taken on March 18 this year. See that beige spot in the middle of the cloudy ring? That’s Olympus Mons, a towering volcano. Isro says it’s the “tallest planetary mountain in the entire solar system.”
“It’s been four years since [the] Mars Orbiter successfully got inserted into Martian orbit on September 24, 2014, in its first attempt,” Isro tweeted yesterday. “MOM’s [Mars Orbiter Mission] mission life was expected to be six months!”
