MISSION MARS
The Mars Orbiter Mission, more commonly known as Mangalyaan has sent its first image of earth taken by the Mars Colour Camera. "we have a nice little things to share with all of you.............in the process of testing our pay loads we turned the Mars Colour Camera towards the Earth and switched it on...........and here is the first ever image of Eearth taken by Mars Colour Camera," says the face-book of Isro Mars Orbiter Mission."The image was taken on Tuesday at around 1.50pm from a height of almost 70,000 km above earth and has a spatial resolution of 3.5 km............we were certain we were going to get some great shots in the orbit of Mars,"the message reads.The image clearly shows India,Indian Ocean,Bay of Bengal, the Himalayas and Indo-Gangetic plain.
"This image capturing is not a planned process. The command is done from our ground station near Bang aloure. we may take one more image before the space craft moves out of the earth's orbit,"these word said by a seniour scientist of Isro.
The space craft will move out of Earth's orbit on December 1 at around 0023 hours.It will then take a 330 days voyage before entering the Mars Orbit on September 24,2014.Mangalyaan was launched on 5 November.Since then there has been a series of orbit raising manoeures,the last one on November 16,which changed the apogee (farthest point from earth) to 192874 km.
On Thursday, Isro released one
image taken on November 19 which captures the Indian subcontinent. It was taken
using its Mars Colour Camera (MCC) from
67,975km with a resolution of 3.53km
per pixel. The image was taken as part the payload testing activity which
commenced last week.
The MCC, which is meant for optical imaging of the Martian surface, was one of the first payloads to be tested. "It's ideal to conduct a test on the functioning of all payloads before the craft leaves the sphere of Earth's influence. The MCC is working well, as indicated by the images we've received," a senior Isro official told TOI.
The tri-colour camera will send images and information about the Martian surface from September 2014 after the craft reaches its designated elliptical orbit around Mars. "The images and information will be useful to monitor the Martian weather. The camera will be used to monitor two of its satellites, Phobos and Deimos," the official said.
MCC will also provide context information for other payloads aboard MOM, another official said, adding that the testing of the four other payloads will be done next week. "Information received from other payloads may not be published as they're not of public interest. They'll be in the form of scientific data which will be released later," he said.
The MCC, which is meant for optical imaging of the Martian surface, was one of the first payloads to be tested. "It's ideal to conduct a test on the functioning of all payloads before the craft leaves the sphere of Earth's influence. The MCC is working well, as indicated by the images we've received," a senior Isro official told TOI.
The tri-colour camera will send images and information about the Martian surface from September 2014 after the craft reaches its designated elliptical orbit around Mars. "The images and information will be useful to monitor the Martian weather. The camera will be used to monitor two of its satellites, Phobos and Deimos," the official said.
MCC will also provide context information for other payloads aboard MOM, another official said, adding that the testing of the four other payloads will be done next week. "Information received from other payloads may not be published as they're not of public interest. They'll be in the form of scientific data which will be released later," he said.
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