Right on the footprints of the news that India has surpassed Japan as the 3rd largest Internet user-base, Google released a doodle today to mark 1 month of Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan – ‘. The doodle, understandably appears only on their India home-search-page.
Mangalyaan was launched on 5th November 2013 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh with the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and India’s first inter-planetary mission entered the Martian orbit on 24th September of this year, 2 days after MAVEN from NASA.
The Mars Orbiter will study the Red Planet’s surface and mineral composition and scan its atmosphere for methane gas in search of life sustaining elements.
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