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India's spacecraft orbits Mars successfully and it cost less to send it there than Hollywood spent on making Gravity
India's spacecraft orbits Mars successfully and it cost less to send it there than Hollywood spent on making Gravity
The Mangalyaan spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Mars this morning, making India the first Asian nation to reach the red planet.
The Mars Orbiter Mission cost £45 million ($74 million), or about three-quarters the amount to make the Oscar-winning movie Gravity about astronauts stranded in space.
It arrived in orbit around the red planet after a tense 300-day marathon travelling more than 420 million miles (670 million km).
Thumbs up: India's low-cost mission to Mars successfully entered the red planet's orbit on this morning. Pictured are Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrating the success of the mission
Just an hour after reaching the orbit, India's space agency, ISRO, received the first photographic data of the red planets terrain, which will be unveiled later this afternoon.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the Mars Orbiter Mission (Mom) crowned a 'near impossible' push to become the only country to complete the trip on its maiden attempt.
Big spenders: A comparison of how much countries have spent on their attempts to reach Mars. Both Russia and the US failed their first attempts to Mars, while the Chinese mission to
Mars, dubbed Yinghuo-1 mission failed in 2011 and the Japanese mission to Mars ran out of fuel
Race to the red planet: The Mangalyaan spacecraft (artist's impression pictured) successfully entered orbit around Mars this morning, making India the first Asian nation to reach the red planet
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Jubilant: Indian PM Narendra Modi is seen on a screen as he addresses scientists alongside a graphic of the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft, after the spacecraft successfully entered into the Mars orbit, at the Indian Space Research Organisation's Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore on Wednesday
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This graphic reveals the trajectory and plans for India's Mars Orbiter Mission. ISRO successfully ignited the main 440 Newton liquid engineand eight small thrusters that fired for 24 minutes and trimmedthe speed of the craft to allow smooth orbit insertion under Mars' shadow
Vigilant: Indian scientists and engineers from the Indian Space Research Organisation monitor India's Mars Orbiter Mission
Keen minds: Indian scientists and engineers of Indian Space Research Organization look at a model of the Mars Orbiter Mission at the tracking centre in Bangalore
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June endorsed the low-cost of the project, saying it cost even less than the budget 'Gravity' (pictured). The Hollywood blockbuster cost about $100 million to make
Having a blast: A rocket carrying the Indian Mars orbiter taking off from the east-coast island of Sriharikota, India, on November 5, 2013
India's spacecraft orbits Mars successfully and it cost less to send it there than Hollywood spent on making Gravity
The Mangalyaan spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Mars this morning, making India the first Asian nation to reach the red planet.
The Mars Orbiter Mission cost £45 million ($74 million), or about three-quarters the amount to make the Oscar-winning movie Gravity about astronauts stranded in space.
It arrived in orbit around the red planet after a tense 300-day marathon travelling more than 420 million miles (670 million km).
Thumbs up: India's low-cost mission to Mars successfully entered the red planet's orbit on this morning. Pictured are Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrating the success of the mission
Just an hour after reaching the orbit, India's space agency, ISRO, received the first photographic data of the red planets terrain, which will be unveiled later this afternoon.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the Mars Orbiter Mission (Mom) crowned a 'near impossible' push to become the only country to complete the trip on its maiden attempt.
Big spenders: A comparison of how much countries have spent on their attempts to reach Mars. Both Russia and the US failed their first attempts to Mars, while the Chinese mission to
Mars, dubbed Yinghuo-1 mission failed in 2011 and the Japanese mission to Mars ran out of fuel
Race to the red planet: The Mangalyaan spacecraft (artist's impression pictured) successfully entered orbit around Mars this morning, making India the first Asian nation to reach the red planet
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Jubilant: Indian PM Narendra Modi is seen on a screen as he addresses scientists alongside a graphic of the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft, after the spacecraft successfully entered into the Mars orbit, at the Indian Space Research Organisation's Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore on Wednesday
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This graphic reveals the trajectory and plans for India's Mars Orbiter Mission. ISRO successfully ignited the main 440 Newton liquid engineand eight small thrusters that fired for 24 minutes and trimmedthe speed of the craft to allow smooth orbit insertion under Mars' shadow
Vigilant: Indian scientists and engineers from the Indian Space Research Organisation monitor India's Mars Orbiter Mission
Keen minds: Indian scientists and engineers of Indian Space Research Organization look at a model of the Mars Orbiter Mission at the tracking centre in Bangalore
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June endorsed the low-cost of the project, saying it cost even less than the budget 'Gravity' (pictured). The Hollywood blockbuster cost about $100 million to make
Having a blast: A rocket carrying the Indian Mars orbiter taking off from the east-coast island of Sriharikota, India, on November 5, 2013