India successfully launched the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars in 2014, joining NASA's MAVEN satellite. Mangalyaan was one of the most economical interplanetary missions ever undertaken, costing just 450 crore rupees compared to NASA's 3,950 crore rupee MAVEN mission. To keep costs low, India reused existing technologies and used a smaller rocket to first place the spacecraft into Earth's orbit before slingshotting it towards Mars. Mangalyaan aims to monitor Mars' weather, take color pictures of the surface, map the planet's mineral composition, and measure methane levels in the atmosphere.

1. INDIA’S MISSION
TO MARS
ONE OF THE MOST ECONOMICAL
INTERPLANETARY MISSIONS
EVER UNDERTAKEN
A presentation By Harsh Manwani

2. RECENTLY, INDIA’S MANGALYAAN SATELLITE
SUCCESSFULLY ENTERED MARS’ ORBIT, JOINING
NASA’S OWN MAVEN SATELLITE.

3. CURIOSTIY WELCOMES MANGALYAAN WITH A TWEET

4. MANGALYAAN
WEIGHS 1,350 KG
LAUNCHED NOV 5, 2013
IN MARS ORBIT SEPT 24, 2014
CLOSEST POINT TO MARS 366 KM
Cost ….. Rs 450 crore

5. CHEAPER THAN NASA’S MISSION
RS 450 crores RS 3950 crores
Cost of
INDIA’s MANGALYAAN
Mission
Cost of
NASA’s MAVEN
Mission

6. TO KEEP COSTS LOW, INDIA RELIED ON REUSING
TECHNOLOGIES. FUEL WAS SAVED BY USING A SMALLER
ROCKET TO PUT ITS SPACECRAFT INTO EARTH’S ORBIT FIRST
BEFORE SLINGSHOTTING IT TOWARD MARS.

7. MANGALYAAN’S MARS MISSION
MONITOR THE TAKE COLOR MAP THE PLANET’S ATMOSPHERIC
PLANET'S PICTURES OF MINERAL ANALYSIS
WEATHER THE SURFACE COMPOSITION

8. METHANE ON MARS
MANGALYAAN IS EQUIPPED WITH AN INSTRUMENT THAT WILL ATTEMPT
TO MEASURE METHANE IN THE ATMOSPHERE.
SOME SCIENTISTS SEE METHANE AS A POTENTIAL INDICATOR OF
BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY. ITS PRESENCE ON MARS MAY PROVIDE
EVIDENCE THAT IT WAS ONCE CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING LIFE.

9. SOME FACTS ABOUT MANGALYAAN
( MOM : Mars Orbiter Mission of INDIA)
#1. Cheapest Mars Mission Ever.
#2. Developed and deployed in just 15 months.
#3. A trip to Mars = 73,791+ trips from Jammu to Kanyakumari!
#4. No country has ever had a successful Mars mission at
the first attempt. Only INDIA did.
#5. Only 3 countries have sent successful Martian missions.
India is the 4th.
#5. MOM to determine levels of water & methane in Martian atmosphere .
#6. It takes 14 minutes for a signal to reach Mars!
#7. NASA’s incredible support to the mission.

10. CELEBRATION

12. “Mangalyaan: Odds Against Us,
But We Prevailed,”
-Says PM Narendra Modi