According to a latest report, The Mangalyaan or the Mars Orbiter Mission has recently sent its first image of the earth, which has been taken by the Mars Color Camera.

The facebook page of the ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission says, "We have a nice little thing to share with all of you... yesterday in the process of testing our payloads we turned the Mars Color Camera towards the Earth and switched it on".

It was further explained on the page that as a result they received and sighted the first ever image of Earth Taken by Mars Color Camera.

The message further said that this image has been taken at around 1.50pm from a height of almost 70,000 km above earth, on Tuesday.

It was also explained by the researchers on the page that they are very certain of getting a few more great shots of the same genre from the orbit of the Red Planet.

The scientists further explain that they have not planned the process of clicking more images of such kind, but they also claim that they hope that they will be clicked as and when it is most suitable for them to do so.

They also say that the command for clicking these images is provided from their ground station near Bangalore.