Mars Orbiter tweets a video!
The satellite seen in this short clip is Phobos
Mumbai: India’s maiden Mars mission has gone a notch up by tweeting a video of the Mars’ satellite Phobos.
The video shows the movement of the Mars equivalent of moon.
Did you see that? It moved! Oh, it's just Phobos. https://t.co/vaY7w5JjW0
— ISRO's Mars Orbiter (@MarsOrbiter) October 14, 2014Like Earth has a single satellite, the Moon, Mars has two. The closer of the two satellites is called Phobos while the other is called Deimos. Both the names are based on Greek Mythology and were discovered in 1877.
The satellite seen in this short clip is Phobos.
Mangalyaan, India's first Mars mission was launched on November 5 2013 and it seccessfully entered the Red planet's orbit on September 24 2014.
Since then the Mars Orbiter twitter account has tweeted to many asnwering questions about Mars, and sent photos of the planet.
Awesome! @ESA_Rosetta, snack time selfie with Mars? This thing doesn't have a front cam :(
— ISRO's Mars Orbiter (@MarsOrbiter) September 29, 2014What sorcery is this? Get your 3D glasses to look at Mars the way I do! pic.twitter.com/eWBN7MaBMS
— ISRO's Mars Orbiter (@MarsOrbiter) September 30, 2014The view is nice up here. pic.twitter.com/VmAjNI76lm
— ISRO's Mars Orbiter (@MarsOrbiter) September 25, 2014