ISRO launched Mars Orbiter in just $73 million and Avengers Endgame cost of making was $350 million.

 What? In just $73 million!

The Mars Orbiter Mission, also called Mangalyan is a orbiter, orbiting mars since 24 September 2014. It is India’s first interplanetary mission and made India fourth country to achieve Mars orbit after Roscosmos, NASA, and ESA. And now India is a first country to achieve Mars orbit in its first attempt. And also the first least-expensive Mars mission to date. The total cost was ₹450 crore – ($73 million). Avengers Endgame cost of making is $350 million. Now you can compare how cheap the Mars mission was.

An illustration of the Mars Orbiter is printed on the back side of the ₹2000 banknote of India. I will not tell you how the mission was launched and other scientific terms and talks, but don’t you want to know what the purpose of the spacecraft was and what has been discovered by it?

So the main objective of the mission is to evolve the technologies required for operations of an Interplanetary Mission. And to explore the Martian surface, Mineralogy, Morphology using capable scientific instruments. On 24 September 2020, Spacecraft completed 6 years in orbit around Mars. Comment below – Is India is capable to land a rover on Mars?

India On Mars Mission

The methane sensor for Mars is designed to measure Methane in the martian atmosphere. Though Mars spacecraft could not detect any methane. It provided excellent data of mars surface and this is the first time a Near Global albedo map of mars has been prepared using wavelength of EM spectra.

In 2019 a Bollywood Hindi film Mission Mangal is based on India’s Mission to mars and you can watch this to know everything about this huge challenging mission.