The Mars Orbiter Mission has produced interesting data, but further work is needed over such inputs for validation purposes, a top ISRO official has said.
“We have got interesting data from the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), but it needs lot more analysis, it needs to be validated by research,” ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar said.
“Only data can tell us that,” he told PTI when asked if something really exciting could be expected out of data from MOM. “The data requires significant amount of additional work to be done to convert them into research output.”
“For example, whatever (data) recently came from NASA...In 2011 they wrote their first paper but only now they have validated,” he added.
ISRO has extended till October 10 its “Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for India’s research community for using data from MOM.