{"id":85585,"date":"2020-07-06T20:33:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16240"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:33:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:03:06","slug":"isros-mom-captures-image-of-the-biggest-moon-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isros-mom-captures-image-of-the-biggest-moon-of-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Isro&#8217;s MOM captures image of the biggest moon of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The Mars Colour Camera(MCC) onboard ISRO\u2019s Mars Orbiter Mission has captured the image of Phobos, the closest and biggest moon of Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Phobos: <\/strong>It is the closest and biggest moon of Mars and is largely believed to be made up of carbonaceous chondrites.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>Phobos is nearing Mars at a rate of six feet every hundred years and at that rate, it will either crash into Mars in 50 million years or break up into a ring.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Mars Orbiter Mission(MOM) or Mangalyaan: <\/strong>It is a space probe launched by the ISRO in 2013 and has been in the Martian orbit since 2014.<\/li><li><strong>Launcher: <\/strong>It was launched using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket C25.<\/li><li><strong>Objectives:<\/strong><ul><li>To explore Martian surface features, mineralogy, morphology and atmosphere using indigenous scientific instruments.&nbsp;<\/li><li>To develop technologies required in planning, designing, management and operations of an interplanetary mission.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Instruments: <\/strong>The Mars Orbiter has five scientific instruments &#8211; Lyman Alpha Photometer(LAP), Methane Sensor for Mars(MSM), Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser(MENCA), Mars Colour Camera(MCC) and Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer(TIS).<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Mars Colour Camera(MCC) onboard ISRO\u2019s Mars Orbiter Mission has captured the image of Phobos, the closest and biggest moon of Mars. Facts: Phobos: It is the closest and biggest moon of Mars and is largely believed to be made up of carbonaceous chondrites.&nbsp; Significance: Phobos is nearing Mars at a rate of six&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isros-mom-captures-image-of-the-biggest-moon-of-mars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Isro&#8217;s MOM captures image of the biggest moon of Mars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[405,2967],"class_list":["post-85585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-isro","tag-mom","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704931374},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}