MUMBAI: It has been the Festival of Colors or Holy in India this week and to celebrate, Isro has released some stunning color pictures of Mars. The mission has also recently carried out some important experiments, which may help in the search for life there.
The Indian Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is the least costly of any mission to Mars made by any country, but it has proven to be a treasure chest of information gleaned from the red planet. The pictures below show magnificent shots of the huge Arsia Mons volcano, the Eos Chaos canyon, the Valles Mariner canyon and one of Mars’ moons, Phobos, silhouetted against the planet’s surface.
The Arsia Mons volcano is 270 miles (435 km) in diameter, almost 12 miles high (20 km) and its summit is 72 miles (110 km) wide. That makes it 30 times larger than the Earth’s largest volcano, Mauna Loa in Hawaii.
