NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s space agency released the first image of the crater-scarred and dry surface of Mars taken by the nation’s first interplanetary spacecraft after it began orbiting the red planet.

The image released Thursday was taken when the Martian Orbiter Mission, or MOM, was about 7,300 kilometers (4,536 miles) from the planet’s surface, according to the Indian Space and Research Organisation. The digital data took at least 12 minutes to reach Earth.

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