PM Modi Presented with the First Picture of MOM

Sep 25, 2014 Tushita Science & Technology 0

A day after ISRO’s Mangalyaan reached the Mars orbit, the spacecraft sent the very first image with the caption, “The view is nice up here,” on Thursday morning.

The view is nice up here. pic.twitter.com/VmAjNI76lm

— ISRO’s Mars Orbiter (@MarsOrbiter) September 25, 2014

Later a team of ISRO scientists presented the first pictures of the Red Planet sent by Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

India scripted space history on Wednesday as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully inserted its low-cost Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft, or Mangalyan, into an orbit around the Red Planet in its very first attempt.

The team, led by ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan and ISRO Scientific Secretary V Koteswara Rao, flew to New Delhi to hand over pictures to the PM.

“A team of @isro scientists presented the 1st pictures from #Mangalyaan today morning. @isro,” the PM tweeted.

Earlier, ISRO had posted the first picture sent by the spacecraft on its twitter handle

“Image of Mars, from a height of 7300 km; with 376m spatial resolution. MT @MarsOrbiter The view is nice up here,” ISRO tweeted.

To this, PM had responded by tweeting, “Yes, I agree @MarsOrbiter, the view is indeed nice up there! @isro.”

Mr. Modi was present at the ISRO complex in Bangalore on Wednesday and witnessed the success of the mission on its maiden attempt itself. He had heaped praise on the scientists.

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