Ukraine in Arabic | India received first images from Mars orbiter
KYIV/Ukraine in Arabic/ The image released on Thursday was taken while the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also dubbed "Mangalyaan" was about 7,300km from the planet's surface, according to the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO). It took at least 12 minutes for the digital data to reach Earth.
It is the first time a maiden voyage to Mars has entered orbit successfully and it is the cheapest. Nasa's latest Maven mission cost almost 10 times as much.
Media in India have hailed the venture as a "historic achievement".
The Hindu newspaper reported that the probe had "beamed back about 10 pictures of the Red Planet's surface which show some craters".
Officials were quoted by the newspaper as saying the pictures were of "good quality".
Analysis - Jonathan Amos, Science correspondent
India's space program has succeeded at the first attempt where others have failed - by sending an operational mission to Mars.
It is, without doubt, a considerable achievement. This is a mission that has been budgeted at 4.5bn rupees ($74m), which, by Western standards, is staggeringly cheap.
The American Maven orbiter that arrived at the Red Planet on Monday is costing almost 10 times as much.
Back in June, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi even quipped that India's real-life Martian adventure was costing less than the make-believe Hollywood film Gravity.
Maiden success
Reports said the camera was the first of the instruments being carried by the satellite to be switched on, a few hours after it entered into orbit.
India's 1,350kg (2,970lb) robotic spacecraft, which undertook a 10-month-long 200-million-km journey, is equipped with five instruments.
They include a thermal imaging spectrometer to map the surface and mineral wealth of the planet, and a sensor to track methane - a possible sign of life - and other components of the atmosphere.
India has become the fourth nation or geo-bloc to put a satellite into orbit around Mars, and the first from Asia.
Only the US, Russia and Europe have previously sent missions to Mars.
