Screens show Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting Indian Space Research Organisation scientists and other officials after the success of Mars Orbiter Mission at their Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network complex in Bangalore | APCHENNAI: India's Mars Orbiter spacecraft has sent five pictures of the red planet's surface, said a senior official of the Indian space agency.
"The Mars Orbiter has started sending pictures. We have received five pictures and these are under processing," an official of Indian Space Research Organisation told IANS, preferring anonymity.
India Wednesday created space history by becoming the first country in the world to place a spacecraft in Mars' orbit in the first attempt.
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