{"id":8515,"date":"2014-09-25T07:21:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T07:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8515"},"modified":"2014-09-25T07:21:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T07:21:56","slug":"indias-mars-orbiter-spacecraft-mangalyan-has-started-sending-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8515","title":{"rendered":"India’s Mars Orbiter spacecraft Mangalyan has started sending pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

India’s Mars Orbiter spacecraft has started sending its first set of pictures of the Red Planet’s surface late on Wednesday night, confirmed ISRO.<\/p>\n

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India has successfully put a satellite into orbit around Mars, becoming the fourth nation or geo-bloc to do so.<\/p>\n

The Mangalyaan robotic probe, one of the cheapest interplanetary missions ever, will soon begin work studying the Red Planet’s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

A 24-minute engine burn slowed the probe down enough to allow it to be captured by Mars’s gravity.<\/p>\n

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country had achieved the “near impossible”.<\/p>\n

Only the US, Russia and Europe have previously sent missions to Mars, and India has succeeded on its first attempt – an achievement that eluded even the Americans and the Soviets.<\/p>\n

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