Thank you ISRO

India is celebrating today. They have put India in the world map. we are the third country to do that,that too incurring least expenditure. PM Narendra Modi has asked all Indian to celebrate. It is a matter of show case our power just before PM's historic visit to US. Lata Mangeshkarji has said Shri Modi is lucky for India. In social Media people writes,

Twinkle, twinkle, little stars,
World is envy; we're on mars!
Up above the world so high,
We've made it in a single try!

Here are 8 reasons why India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is just amazing:

🔆The Mangalyaan mission cost India $73 million (~Rs.450 crores) which is even cheaper than an eight lane bridge in Mumbai which cost $340 million. It is less than the budget of film “Gravity” which was about $105 million and about one-tenth of what the US has spent on MAVEN, making it undoubtedly the most cost- effective inter-planetary space mission to have ever been undertaken anywhere in the world!

🔆In real terms, when distributed over the population of 1.2 billion, every Indian has contributed Rs.4 per towards the mission.

🔆Mangalyaan will observe the environment of Mars and look for various elements like methane (marsh gas), which is a possible indicator of life.

It will also look for Deuterium-Hydroden ratio and other neutral constants.

🔆The orbiter weighs 1,350-kg, which is even less than the weight of an average sports utility
vehicle.

🔆The manufacturing of Mangalyaan took 15 months while NASA took five years to complete
MAVEN .

🔆Mangalyaan is the first spacecraft to be launched outside the Earth’s sphere of influence by ISRO in its entire history of 44 years.

🔆ISRO will be the fourth space agency in the world after National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US, Russian Federal Space Agency (RFSA) and European Space Agency to have successfully undertaken a mission to Mars.

🔆Considering that Mars is about 670 million kilometers from the Earth, the cost of the ride works out to about Rs.6.7 per kilometre –
cheaper than what even autorickshaws charge anywhere in India! 

Via #TheBetterIndia