Isro's Mars Orbiter, which took this picture, has now been in orbit for four years. (Photo: Twitter/@isro)

Who says a planet needs lush, steamy jungles or azure seas to captivate the senses? Mars, our rusty neighbour, seems to manage just fine.

It's home to craters and soaring peaks, and gets its reddish hue from oxidised iron minerals. Just feast your eyes on these photos, taken by the Mars Colour Camera (MCC) on the Indian Space Research Organisation's (Isro) Mars Orbiter -- a spacecraft that has now been in orbit for four years.

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It's been 4 years since I am around!

Thank you for your love and support. @isro pic.twitter.com/ry89iilKCV ISRO's Mars Orbiter (@MarsOrbiter) September 25, 2018

Photo: Twitter/@isro

Photo: Twitter/@isro

This photo was taken on March 18 this year. See that beige spot in the middle of the cloudy ring? That's Olympus Mons, a towering volcano. Isro says it's the "tallest planetary mountain in the entire solar system."

Photo: https://www.isro.gov.in

"It's been four years since [the] Mars Orbiter successfully got inserted into Martian orbit on September 24, 2014, in its first attempt," Isro tweeted yesterday. "MOM's [Mars Orbiter Mission] mission life was expected to be six months!"

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The space agency said the Mars Colour Camera had acquired more than 980 images. Here are pictures of the spacecraft and the MCC payload's location.

Photo: https://www.isro.gov.in

We've leave you with one last photo from the MCC. It's breathtaking, isn't it?

Photo: https://www.isro.gov.in

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