India’s first mission to Mars has successfully crossed the half-way mark, four months after leaving on a voyage to the Red Planet which is scheduled to take 11 months.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) made the announcement on Wednesday in a statement from the southern city of Bangalore.
It said that the spacecraft and its five scientific instruments are in good health.
The gold-coloured probe, the size of a small car, will aim to detect methane in the Martian atmosphere, which could provide evidence of some sort of life form on the Red Planet.
