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Google marks one month anniversary of India's Mars mission with Mangalyaan Google Doodle

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Google on Friday celebrated one month anniversarry of Mangalyaan, by putting up a search page on its home page.

The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO's) recently launched Mangalyaan has completed a month in the Martian Orbit.

The Mars Orbiter Mission is India's first interplanetary mission. It was launched on November 5, 2013 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh with the powerful Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) The mission was approved by the Indian government in August 2012 and was executed in 15 months at a cost of Rs. 450 crore ($74 million). 

In its 25th flight, the PSLV C25 had launched the Mars Orbiter Mission. After five orbit raising manoeuvres the mission for Mars entered the trans mars injection. The journey which was 680 million kilometers away from the earth was monitored by ISRO, NASA and also by many stations around the world.

Finally on September 24, Mangalyaan entered the Martian orbit.

ISRO sees the Mars Orbiter Mission as one of its major achievements, and its scientists and others now believe it is possible to aspire and dream about higher objectives in space science.

The aim of Mangalyaan is to explore the surface features, morphology and mineralogy of Mars, besides the Martian atmosphere with the help of indigenous scientific instruments.

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