Mars Colour Camera (MCC)

V.D. Patel, S.S. Sarkar, A.S. Arya

Space Applications Centre (SAC), ISRO, Ahmedabad-380015, India

Mars Colour Camera (MCC), on-board Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), is a `true colour’ (offering a natural colour rendition) medium resolution camera based on Bayer pattern detector and operating in the visible range (0.4μ to 0.7μ).The camera returns high quality visible images of Mars and its environs. The highly elliptical orbit chosen for the Mars mission allows imaging of localized scenes at high spatial resolution as well as providing a synoptic view of the full globe. MCC has taken a large number of images showing interesting morphological features on the Martian surface and has also captured the two moons of Mars – Phobos and Deimos during its current Martian orbit phase of the mission.