India's Mars Orbiter Mission: Latest News, Photos and Video

An artist's view of India's first Mars probe, the heart of the Mars Orbiter Mission, in orbit around the Red Planet. India's first Mars orbiter will arrive at its target on Sept. 24, 2014.
An artist's view of India's first Mars probe, the heart of the Mars Orbiter Mission, in orbit around the Red Planet. India's first Mars orbiter will arrive at its target on Sept. 24, 2014. (Image credit: India Space Research Organisation)

India's Mars Orbiter Mission marks the country's first mission to the Red Planet and first entry into interplanetary spaceflight. The unmanned Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, will map the surface of the Red Planet and test technologies needed for future Indian space missions.

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