India's mission 200 days away from Mars

March 07, 2014 19:43

India's ambitious maiden inter-planetary voyage Mars Orbiter Mission, launched in November last year, has covered over 21 million km and as of today is exactly 200 days away from reaching the red planet's orbit on September 24.

The MOM probe was travelling with a helio-centric velocity of 29 km per second and radio signals sent from ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network ground stations near Bangalore takes 142 seconds to reach the spacecraft and return, ISRO said.

"If everything goes as planned, MOM will get inserted into its Martian orbit around, exactly after 200 days from today," the space agency said in a posting on its social networking site Facebook.

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