MOM’s 1st Martian birthday

Colourful album to be released

September 22, 2015 12:00 am | Updated September 23, 2015 02:59 am IST - BENGALURU:

India’s Mars Orbiter Mission marked its first birthday at Mars on Thursday, and it is celebration time again on Earth although a low-key one.

Indian Space Research Organisation will release an atlas of images taken by the Mars Colour Camera and some results from the Mars Methane Sensor, ISRO Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar said on Monday.

On November 5, it would release a book tracing the journey of the space agency.

Mr. Kumar was at a lecture to mark the 95th birth anniversary of Satish Dhawan, second Chairman of ISRO.

Former ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan delivered the lecture organised by the Bangalore chapter of the Institution of Engineers (India).

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