India's spacecraft beams back first Mars photos
Agence France Presse
NEW DELHI: India's spacecraft has beamed back its first photos of Mars, showing its crater-marked surface, as the country glowed with pride Thursday after winning Asia's race to the Red Planet.
The Indian Space Research Organization uploaded one of the photos onto its Facebook page, showing an orange surface and dark holes, taken from a height of 7,300 kilometers.
ISRO also posted the photo on Twitter, with the caption "The view is nice up here."
A senior ISRO official told AFP that several photos had been successfully received, while a spokesman for the government agency said the spacecraft was working well.
India became the first Asian country to reach Mars Wednesday when its unmanned Mangalyaan spacecraft entered the orbit after a 10-month journey on a shoestring budget.
Tthe surface of Mars is seen from a height of 7,300 km in the first image taken by the ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft. (AFP/ISRO)
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