Thursday, November 21, 2013

MOM Takes Picture of Mother India

From a height of 70,000km above the Earth, India's Mars Orbiter has taken a picture of the Indian subcontinent in full colour:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/11200849-first-images-from-mars-orbiter-mission.html


You are looking at the first full colour picture ever taken of the Earth by an Indian spacecraft. After reaching Mars in about 9 months from now, MOM will transmit back full colour pictures of that planet.

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