<p class="title">The mission, launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on November 5, 2013, successfully placed itself into Martian orbit on September 24, 2014, in its first attempt.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Although the designed mission life of MOM was six months, the satellite has continued to beam back science data from Mars for the past four years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It's been 4 years since I am around! Thank you for your love and support," the ISRO's Mars Orbiter twitter handle said Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The tweet included an image taken by the orbiter of Olympus Mons -- the largest known volcano of the solar system.</p>.<p class="bodytext">MOM is built with full autonomy to take care of itself for long periods without any ground intervention. The spacecraft came out of communication 'blackout' during this period.</p>.<p class="bodytext">MOM is the only Martian artificial satellite which could image the full disc of Mars in one view frame and also image the far side of the Martian moon Deimos.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Mars Colour Camera has acquired over 980 images so far. The mission has also helped scientists successfully prepare a global atlas of Mars.</p>
<p class="title">The mission, launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on November 5, 2013, successfully placed itself into Martian orbit on September 24, 2014, in its first attempt.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Although the designed mission life of MOM was six months, the satellite has continued to beam back science data from Mars for the past four years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It's been 4 years since I am around! Thank you for your love and support," the ISRO's Mars Orbiter twitter handle said Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The tweet included an image taken by the orbiter of Olympus Mons -- the largest known volcano of the solar system.</p>.<p class="bodytext">MOM is built with full autonomy to take care of itself for long periods without any ground intervention. The spacecraft came out of communication 'blackout' during this period.</p>.<p class="bodytext">MOM is the only Martian artificial satellite which could image the full disc of Mars in one view frame and also image the far side of the Martian moon Deimos.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Mars Colour Camera has acquired over 980 images so far. The mission has also helped scientists successfully prepare a global atlas of Mars.</p>