Mission Mars: ISRO's Journey From Blue To Red Planet

Cheapest interplanetary mission:

India's MOM is perhaps the cheapest and lowest-cost inter-planetary mission ever to be undertaken in the world. It cost us all a mere 4 per person. PM Narendra Modi applauding Indian scientists had said," Hollywood movie Gravity costs more than our space mission."

It cost 74 million which is about a tenth of NASA's Mars mission Maven that entered the Martian orbit on September 22.
“This is the cheapest inter-planetary mission ever to be undertaken by the world,” said ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan.

Equipments and its Payloads:

The 1,350 kg spacecraft is equipped with five instruments including a sensor to track methane or marsh gas—a possible sign of life, a colour camera and a thermal imaging spectrometer to map the surface and mineral wealth of the Red Planet.

It carries five specific Payloads to observe the Martian space and atmosphere expanding up to 80,000 kilometers for a spatial understanding of the planet’s evolution. These payloads are A Mars Color Camera, Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP), and two spectrometers. Other Components along with payloads are Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser (MENCA), Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM) and Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (TIS).

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