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The image was taken on July 1 when MOM was about 7,200 km from Mars and 4,200km from Phobos.
The launch was earlier tentatively scheduled at 17:43 hours on Thursday, subject to weather conditions, from the second launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh also said it is wrong to term Chandrayaan-2 as a disappointment since it was India's maiden attempt to land on the lunar surface and no country could do so in its first attempt.
According to ISRO, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket, on its 50th mission, set to carry the 10 satellites. The countdown began at 4.40pm on Tuesday evening.
The rocket will blast off from the first launch pad at Sriharikota rocket port in Andhra Pradesh and place RISAT-2BR1 into an orbit of 576 km.
ISRO has not officially accounted for this sidestepping of the number 13.
The space agency launched CARTOSAT-3 satellite, ninth in the series, from the second launch pad at spaceport of Sriharikota, about 120kms from here on November 27 at 09.28 am.
The launch is tentatively scheduled at 09:28 hrs IST on November 25, 2019 subject to weather conditions, ISRO said.
As on date, PSLVs, in addition to launching several national satellites, have launched 297 international customer satellites from 33 countries.
The landing on the moon near the South Pole, an uncharted territory so far, would be on September 6 or 7.