Bangalore: We have dared to reach out into the unknown and have achieved the near impossible, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday after India’s Mars Orbiter Mission successfully entered the Mars orbit.

“History has been created today,” said Modi here amidst applause.

He congratulated Indians and ISRO scientists for the success, despite the constraint of resources.

We have gone beyond the boundaries of human enterprise, said the prime minister.

He also exhorted that the successful Mars mission “must become a base for challenging the next frontier”.

“This too must become but a base for challenging the next frontier,” a tweet by the Prime Minister’s Office said after the spacecraft Orbiter was successfully inserted into the Martian orbit on Wednesday.

“Let today’s success drive us with even greater vigour and conviction. Let’s set ourselves even more challenging goals,” the tweet cited the prime minister as saying.