When the crowded command control room of India's Mars mission
exploded into applause after it successfully put a satellite into orbit
around the Red Planet, photographer Manjunath Kiran of the AFP news
agency clicked this remarkable image of scientists congratulating each
other.
"There is this story of our Mars mission costing less than the Hollywood movie 'Gravity.' ... Our scientists have shown the world a new paradigm of engineering and the power of imagination."
The $74 million Mars Orbiter Mission, also known by the acronym MOM or the Hindi word Mangalyaan ("Mars-Craft"), didn't just cost less than the $100 million Hollywood blockbuster starring Sandra Bullock. The price tag is a mere one-ninth of the cost of NASA's $671 million Maven mission, which also put its spacecraft into Mars orbit this week.
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