Bangalore, July 28 - India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 has captured the shadow of the moon on the earth's surface during the July 22 total solar eclipse, an Indian space agency official said Tuesday.

The images were captured by the special terrain mapping camera (TMC) on board the spacecraft.

'Chandrayaan tracked the movement of shadow of the moon on the earth's surface during the total solar eclipse. The high resolution images shot by the TMC from 7.45 a.m. shows the moon's shadow spreading from north-eastern China to northern parts of Australia,' Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Director S. Satish told IANS here.

The dark shadow of the umbra region can be clearly seen in the series of images the space agency has released after they were received at ISRO's deep space network (DSN) at Baylalu, about 40 km from this tech hub.