New Delhi: The Mangalyaan mission has come to an end. The fuel and battery present in it are also exhausted. With this, the eight year and eight day journey of Mangalyaan i.e. Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) came to an end. The mission was launched on 5 November 2013. It reached Mars orbit on 24 September 2014. With this mission, India became the first country in the world to reach Mars directly in one go.
The cost of Mangalyaan mission was Rs 450 crore. Hollywood films were being made at that time. ISRO news agency said that there is no fuel left in Mangalyaan now. is completely over. The spacecraft’s batteries are also completely depleted. Our link with Mangalyaan is also broken.
However, the country’s space agency has not shared any information about this through its official Twitter handle. An ISRO official said on condition of anonymity that there have been continuous eclipses on Mars recently. The longest eclipse was seven and a half hours. An eclipse here did not mean that the spacecraft went past Mars. This means that the Martian battery can only last for an hour and 40 minutes during an eclipse, i.e. without sunlight. It was no use after that.
Read Mangalyaan’s achievements in seven points
- Mangalyaan was sent on a six-month mission. But for eight years and eight days he continued to orbit the red planet. This is nothing short of a scientific miracle.
- The orbiter sometimes took the farthest picture of Mars and sometimes sent the picture very close to India. Thanks to this orbit, ISRO scientists have been able to create a complete disk map of Mars.
- The Martian moon Deimos was photographed for the first time when the Mars probe was orbiting the farthest point in Mars’ elliptical orbit. No one in the country had seen a picture of a demo before this.
- The rover’s Mars Color Camera sent back more than 1100 images. With the help of which ISRO has created Mars Atlas. In which you can see pictures of different places on Mars. can know about them. More than 35 research papers were published due to and on Mangalyana. That too in a peer reviewed journal.
- The scientists and ISRO of the country never thought that they are going to complete such a big mission with just 450 crore rupees. For the first time he will be able to take his spacecraft to Mars. While countries like America, Russia and Europe failed to reach Mars after many failures. The arrival of Mangalyan at the right time and in one fell swoop boosted ISRO’s respectability around the world. He started getting more orders to launch satellites from different countries.
- ISRO won many space commercial, service and satellite imagery deals. ISRO has benefited so much from just one mission that it is difficult to say anything about it. Mangalyaan was not just a scientific mission. It was a matter of pride for the country.
- Mangalyana studies solar kinetics related to solar energy. A study of planet-wide dust storms through the Martian atmosphere. Discovered hot argon in the exosphere of Mars. The Mars rover’s Manca instrument revealed the amount of oxygen and CO2 270 km above the Martian surface.
This work can still be done…
Scientists of the country and the world can research and study the data obtained from Mangalyaan. Students of the country’s educational institutions can make a thesis on data, documents and reports received from ISRO on Mars.
What will happen now…
- India has to depend on America, Europe or other countries for Mars related data.
- There will be no news from Mars until the new Mangalyan i.e. Mangalyan-2 goes.
- No new map will be created. Also no new research will be done.