India's Mangalyaan mission completed five years of orbiting Mars on September 24, 2019. The launch vehicle, spacecraft and ground segment was built at a cost ₹450 crore.
The mission was meant to last only for six months. But it is likely to continue its mission for some more time.
In the past years, the Mars orbiter has sent thousands of pictures of the planet. This has helped ISRO prepare a Martian Atlas.
The orbiter is the only Martian artificial satellite that has captured the full disc of Mars in one view frame. The orbited has also captured Phobos and Deimos, the two moons of Mars, from a short distance. The data from the mission has helped produced 23 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
