India created history on Wednesday, becoming the first country to successfully get a spacecraft into the Martian orbit on its maiden attempt.
Mangalyaan
In Hindi(Official Language of India),
- Mangal means -Tuesday; the god Tyr or Tiw identified with Mars, after whom Tuesday.
- Yaan means craft,vehicle etc
Mangalyaan means Mars-craft.
Indian Space Research Organisation's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft started orbiting the red planet at 7.47 a.m, but it was only 12 minutes later —because of a time delay in radio signals travelling the 680 million km -- that scientists at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore, could erupt in joy as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood a happy witness.
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