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August 18, 2015 This article is more than 2 years old.

India’s Mangalyaan—the world’s cheapest Mars mission—has sent back some stunning images of the red planet’s surface.

On July 19, the mission snapped images of Ophir Chasma, a massive canyon that is some 317 kilometres long and 62 metres wide. It is part of the Valles Marineris, a system of canyons on Mars that’s about 4,000-km long—nine times the length of the Grand Canyon in the US.

Mangalyaan, with its indigenously-developed Mars Color Camera, is also transmitting photographs of other physical formations on Mars, including craters, ridges and valleys.

Launched on Nov. 05, 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as its first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan reached the Mars orbit in Sept. 2014. Since then it has been monitoring the planet and studying its surface and atmosphere.

ISRO A 3D view of Arsia Mons, a huge volcano on Mars.

ISRO Eos Chaos area, part of the gigantic Valles Marineris Canyon of Mars.

ISRO The first image of Mars taken from a height of 7,300 km.

ISRO Ophir Chasma terrain.

ISRO Phobos, one of the two natural satellites of Mars, silhouetted against the Martian surface.

ISRO Pital Crater.

ISRO Aurorae Chaos, Pyrrhae Chaos and adjoining regions of Mars.

ISRO Regional dust storm activities over Northern Hemisphere of Mars.

ISRO Photo taken from an altitude of 8,449 km.

ISRO Ophir Chasma terrain.

ISRO Tyrrhenus Mons as seen by Mars Color Camera.

ISRO Valles Marineris and adjoining regions of Mars.

ISRO Central portion of Valles Marineris of Mars.