Starting Monday, India's low-cost Mars mission that has been orbiting the red planet will enter the "blackout" phase snapping all communication with the satellite as the sun will block Mars from the earth from June 8 to 22.

Mars Orbiter Mission(MOM) during this period will go into "autonomous mode" and will take its decisions, a senior ISRO official told PTI. "This will be for the first time that there will be a communication break for such a long period of about 15 days. During this period, there will not be any communication with the satellite," he said.