The film is set to release on October 2, however, a special screening is being held on September 24, for these scientists in Bangalore in Ahmedabad today, exactly a year since Mangalyaan began orbiting Mars.
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The atlas contains a compilation of images acquired by Mars Colour Camera (MCC) and results obtained by other payload results in a scientific form, an official press release said. It was successfully inserted into the Red Planet orbit on 24 September 2014, after a 298-day transit to Mars.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will celebrate the first anniversary of MOM by publishing an atlas of photos captured by MOM on its journey to Mars and in the orbit of the Red Planet.
The Mars Orbiter Spacecraft carried five scientific instruments to collect data on atmospheric processes, morphology, surface geology, morphology, atmospheric processes, atmospheric escape process and surface temperature.
This possibly refers to the Mangalyaan recording signals of the presence of methane gas in the Martian atmosphere. India became one of only four countries whose space agencies have successfully reached Mars.
ISRO and its MOM, also known as Mangalyaan, put India in the club of global space elites in several ways.
This images, released on the occasion of Independence Day, were taken on July 19 when Mangalyaan was at an altitude of 1857 km from the surface of Mars. The stunning images sent by MOM include the full disc of the red planet along with its biggest volcano and deep valleys.
Images captured by the MCC have provided information on Mars at varying spatial resolutions.
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“Mars (mission) is expected to last for many years now, because it has gone through solar conjunction also; so we don’t see much of a problem”, ISRO Chairman AS Kiran Kumar had said here on Monday. Earlier, the mission was intended for only six months and later extended for another six months in March this year. However, with more fuel still left, ISRO expects MOM to continue circling the Red Planet for more years.
