Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the entry of the spacecraft into orbit around Mars and its normal operation so far as "an achievement of something that was close to impossible"
A day after reaching orbit around Mars, the MOM spacecraft or Mangalyan in Hindi tweeted the first image of the Martian soil.
The Indian Mars rover, built for less than the budget of some space movies, took the picture on Thursday, hours after entering orbit and thus completing its trials. The high-resolution image was taken with the help of a camera on board the Madimai satellite.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the entry of the spacecraft into orbit around Mars and its normal operation so far as "an achievement of something that was close to impossible". He congratulated the scientists of the Indian Space Agency (Indian Space Research Organization - ISRO) and called on its leaders to work for achievements in other fronts of space exploration.
MOM covered a distance of over 650 million km in column space for nine months and on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 it entered orbit around Mars. The USA, Europe and Russia failed in each of their first attempts to launch spacecraft to Mars.
NASA's Deep Space Network stations in Goldstone in California, Madrid in Spain and Canberra in Australia and the Indian Space Agency's facility in Bialalu near Bangalore received radio signals from the rover, confirming its entry into orbit around Mars.
The spacecraft, whose dry weight (without fuel) is 475 kg, takes 77 hours - a little more than three days - to orbit Mars. It will explore the surface and the mineral composition and scan the atmosphere in search of methane and other compounds important to life.
The spaceship that costs less than a movie
and in the meantime, From calculations made by the website Universe today It turns out that the budget for building and launching the MOM spacecraft to Mars with a budget of 70 million dollars is smaller than that of many space movies. MOM cost less than Gary Sinise's 2000 film Journey to Mars.
Investment figures in space films (adjusted for inflation)
Avatar - 263 million dollars, Wall-E - 199 million dollars, The Fifth Element - 138 million dollars, Journey to Mars - 124 million dollars (90 million dollars of the year 2000), Elysium - 117 million, Star Trek - the movie - 115 million dollars Adjusted for inflation (35 million in 1979), Gravity - $102 million, Apollo 13 - $101.5 million, Dune - $92 million, Encounters of the Third Kind - $76 million, 2001 - A Space Odyssey - $72 million
Below the 70 million threshold we find films such as The Elite Team, Serenity, Star Wars (in which only 11 million dollars were invested in 1977 - 43 million dollars in today's terms); Outland, The Eighth Passenger, War of the Worlds (1953 version), Silent Run, Moon (2009) and Apollo 18.
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How much love exists in this family.
All the best to you, an exemplary stripper
Nostradamus
Plans are indeed being formed to launch a spacecraft to the moon of Europa and also to other moons of Jupiter. India cannot send a spacecraft to Europe because a spacecraft weighing several tons is required and it does not have powerful launchers. Developing such launchers takes years and involves huge expenses far beyond the capacity of one country. By launching a spacecraft to Mars, the Indians are gaining experience and there is nothing wrong with that. On the contrary.
Nostradamus beni Haket
Papa loves you very much. He's really a bit of a troll but what can you do and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
Arivudracha
Papa Nostradamus, go be a troll somewhere else
Nostradamus beni Haket
You deteriorate from rejection to rejection.. there will be no choice, but to transfer you to Smurf Grandfather or Gargamel.
MouthHole, I forgot to ask you if I'm allowed to comment and what to write down.
Nostradamus beni Haket
Once again you let me down. I will not take you to the movie Ichakadana.
But what's the point of reacting? Except ego pride. It would have been better to write something useful.
But what is the point of doing the same thing that has already been done by other countries? Except for national pride. It would be better if they sent Europa to the moon.