"As the country's low-cost Mars Orbiter Mission completes three years inits Martian orbit, the satellite is in good health andcontinues to work as expected," the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.
The scientific analysis of the data received from the Mars Orbiter spacecraft is in progress, ISRO Public Relations Director Deviprasad Karnik told PTI.
The country had on September 24, 2014 successfully placed the Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft in the orbit around the red planet, in its very first attempt, thus breaking into an elite club.
On the occasion of completion of three years of MOM in its Martian orbit on 24 September 2017, the space body today released MOM second year science data from September 24, 2014 toSeptember 23, 2016.
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The space agency had earlier launched MOM Announcement of Opportunity (AO) programmes for researchers in the country to use MOM data for research and development.
Citing surplus fuel, ISRO had in March, 2015announced that the spacecraft's life had been extendedfor another six months. Later in June, 2015, its chairman A SKiran Kumar had said it had enough fuel for it to last "manyyears".
The Mars Orbiter has five scientific instruments - 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).
The Mars Colour Camera, one of the scientific payloads onboard MOM, has produced more than 715 images so far, ISRO had said.
During its journey so far, the mission went through a communication 'blackout' as a result of solar conjunction fromJune 2, 2015 to July 2, 2015. It had also experienced the 'whiteout' geometry phenomenon (when earthis between the sun and Mars and too much solar radiation makes it impossible to communicate with the earth) from May 18 toMay 30, 2016.
The government had in November last said the space organisation was seekingscientific proposals for Mars Orbiter Mission-2 to expand inter-planetary research.