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Click, it’s in the box. Or rather in the Indian probe into orbit Wednesday. It sent its first pictures of Mars, showing craters dug its surface image that came reinforce the pride of India, the first Asian country to reach the Red Planet. One of the pictures was posted Thursday on the Facebook page of the Indian Space Agency (ISRO), showing the surface of Mars parceled orange black holes, a photograph taken at 7300 km altitude. “The view is beautiful from up there,” wrote the agency on his Twitter account.

The scientist in charge of the agency, V. Koteswara Rao, said the probe, dubbed Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) had sent a dozen photos from its orbit Wednesday and it worked fine. “The color camera on board began work shortly after stabilization in the elliptical orbit of Mars and took a dozen pictures of its surface and surrounding areas,” Rao told AFP.



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“The unit will also take pictures of the two moons of Mars and send them to our Space Centre,” he added in reference to the base of installed near Mission Bangalore. “The” health “of the probe and its other parameters are good and all essential functions normally walk,” said Rao.

India became the first Asian country to reach Mars on Wednesday with MOM its probe, also called Mangalyaan, into orbit after a voyage of 10 months. With a budget of $ 74 million, the Indian mission only cost a fraction of the MAVEN NASA probe into orbit of Mars successfully on Sunday. The American mission costs about $ 671 million.