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India Mars mission: ISRO warns of fake social media profiles

Bangalore: The Indian space agency on Monday cautioned people on forged profiles about its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter."It has come to our notice that a number of

Scientists at ISRO's Deep Space Network at Bylalu, about 40km from Bangalore, are monitoring the Orbiter's odyssey and programming its computer for sending and receiving commands for its operations despite a 20-minute delay in the exercise due to the distance between earth and deep space.

The Orbiter zoomed out on December 4 of the earth's sphere of influence, which extends up to 925,000km in the cosmic space and became free of its gravitational pull.

After a nine-month journey, the spacecraft will enter the Mars sphere of influence, which is around 573,473km from its surface, in a hyperbolic trajectory.

When the spacecraft is closest to the red planet, it will be captured into the Martian orbit through a crucial manoeuvre, which involves slowing its velocity.

India became the first Asian country and fourth nation in the world to leap into the interplanetary space with its Rs. 450-crore exploratory mission to Mars, about 400-million km from earth.

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