Mangalyaan
India's Mars Orbiter Mission launched on 5 November 2013, raised its Earth orbit six times, left for Mars on 1 December and entered Mars orbit on 24 September 2014, on its first try.
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The pink line is Mangalyaan's path and the white dot ringed in pink is the spacecraft. Grey rings are the orbits of Earth and Mars.
Near Earth or Mars the path is drawn around that planet, so orbits show as loops. Earth and Mars are drawn larger than life in wide views.
The corner distance is from the planet's surface near Earth or Mars, and from the Sun between them.
Earth picture: NASA Visible Earth. Mars picture: NASA/JPL-Caltech from Viking images processed at the USGS.
Positions: NASA JPL Horizons, Mars Orbiter Mission (-3). Mission: ISRO.