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First ever image of Earth taken by India's Mars orbiter Spacecraft!!

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Yesterday in the process of testing the payloads Mangalyan's Mars Color Camera turned towards the Earth and switched it on... and here is the "First ever image of Earth Taken by Mars Color Camera"

This image was taken yesterday at around 1350 hrs from a height of almost 70,000 km above earth and has a spatial resolution of 3.5 km...

Source:-[url="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1399270930310847&set=a.1384034005167873.1073741827.1384015488503058&type=1&relevant_count=1"]Timeline Photos - ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission | Facebook[/URL]
 
About Mars Color Camera – MCC

Mangalyaan carries a camera payload that acquires color images of planet Mars. The payload weighs about 1.4 Kilograms. MCC covers a spectral range of 400 to 700 nanometers – the visible spectrum. The camera includes a multi-element lens assembly and a 2,000 by 2,000-pixel array detector with RGB Bayer Filter.

At perigee, MCC provides images with a 50 by 50-Kilometer frame size and a resolution of 25 meters per pixel. At apogee, the camera provides a wide field of view of 8,000 by 8,000 Kilometers. Imagery provided by MCC are used to study Martian surface topography.
 
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