First picture sent by Indian spacecraft

India's spacecraft sent to Earth the first photos of Mars with the surface formed by craters , adding to the pride of South Asia after winning the rest of Europe Asia in the race to explore the red planet.

>>>Ship Mangalyaan went into Mars orbit

The Indian Space Research Agency (ISRO) on September 25 announced one of the photos at its Facebook page, showing an orange surface with many black holes, taken from a height 7,300km. In addition, ISRO also posted photos on Twitter.

Image of the first Martian infused by Earth Orbiter Mission Mars Orbiter Mission - (Photo: AFP)

ISRO V. Koteswara Rao's senior scientist said that the Mars Orbiter Mission, or Mangalyaan, has captured dozens of photos and everything works well.

"The Martian color camera on the spacecraft started working as soon as the ship stabilized on elliptical orbit around Mars and it captured dozens of quality photographs of the Martian surface and surrounding area. " , AFP quoted scientist V. Koteswara Rao as saying.

"The camera also captured the images of the two moons of the red planet and transmitted them to the center of our deep space network , " Rao said, referring to the facility near the southern city of Bangalore.

It is known that India surpassed China and Japan, the two countries in turn failed to aspire to take ships to Mars in 2011 and 2003, when the Mars Orbiter Mission entered orbit into the red planet successfully. on September 24, after a 10-month journey through 410 million km long.

The probe Mars Orbiter Mission flew into Mars orbit successfully on September 24 - (Photo: AFP)

In addition, this event also helped India become the first country to successfully implement the mission of exploring Mars on the first launch. While Europe, America and Russia have sent spacecraft flying to orbit and even landed on the surface of the red planet, after several failed attempts.

It is worth mentioning that India's first mission to explore Mars costs only $ 74 million, much cheaper than the cost of $ 671 million that the US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) has taken to ship the Maven. fly to Mars.

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