Mangalyaan Money: India Celebrates Mars Orbiter Mission on New Banknote

Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 14:42 in Astronomy & Space

Three years after it launched to circle Mars, India's first interplanetary spacecraft is now entering circulation on the reverse of a new banknote. The Reserve Bank of India issued the bill with an illustration of the Mangalyaan or Mars Orbiter Mission.

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