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Chandrayaan Beams 40,000 Images of Moon Surface

Techtree News Staff, Jan 13, 2009 1344 hrs IST

The comprehensive mapping, with resolutions of up to five meters, will help the country plan future missions to the moon

ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair announced that the Chandrayaan has sent more than 40,000 images to the base station in the last two months.

These images are currently being analyzed and will undoubtedly prove invaluable to the scientific community. The ISRO chief said that while there were many lunar missions in the past, none of them has been able to provide comprehensive data in the form of images so detailed.

The Chandrayaan has been able to capture images of the lunar surface and get a complete picture of the moon with resolutions of up to five meters. Compare this with earlier missions, which capture images with a 100-meter resolution and that too of a very limited area.

The images from the mission will be used to study the composition of the lunar surface and to learn in detail the mineral composition of the moon. The comprehensive mapping will also help the country plan future missions to the moon, he said.

The chairman, speaking during an event, added that ISRO is blazing all guns and expects the country to execute its first manned moon mission by 2015!

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vincent

,bangalore, on Jan 20, 2009 03:25 PM

after analysing the image there is some liquid particals inside hayworth crater.

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vincent

,bangalore, on Jan 20, 2009 03:21 PM

Seeing the image it seems there is water in the moon or some liquid .

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sateeshgajula

,hyderabad,AP, on Jan 20, 2009 10:00 AM

all the best for future

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Kartik Gupta

,Delhi, on Jan 15, 2009 01:39 PM

is it ok we are looking forward but what about devlopements of aircrafts?.India always purchase fighter planes from outside which is too expensive and we have to depend on other nations but when the day come when we export ur made in India aircrafts

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mohaghna choudh

,kolkata, on Jan 18, 2009 08:17 PM

Incase you do not know,there had been an aircraft,by hte name of tejas.It is said to be the smallest fighter in the world.

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niteesh

,hyd.ap, on Jan 14, 2009 08:56 PM

all the best for future

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Dodda Praveen R

,Hyderabad, on Jan 13, 2009 02:52 PM

Kudos to the ISRO Team. This has been a dream come true, the very base of which was laid by our intellectual ancestors followed by our ex President Kalam. This will surely place our counry in the elite club of manned mission countries. This shows the indias intellect and technical expertise with minimum budget. Its only a matter of time when we send our countrymen to the moons surface with the indegenously developed spacecraft.

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MaverickHunt

,Pune, on Jan 14, 2009 09:07 AM

I think ISRO is a too introvert organization. Though they keep on doing a great job, but nothing is worth if they don't publish some images that could motivate young students to pursue this field. I don't understand why indian minds are so selfish and introvert. The same happens with our education system too. Its going no where if young minds are not involved.

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DKA

,Gurgaon, on Jan 14, 2009 08:47 PM

ISRO already announced that it will release all the images captured by Chandrayan to Worldwide scientific community after it has gone through them first. Have some patience, analysing 40,000 images isn't gonna take a day or two. Give them couple of months or so.

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Rachna Shkla

,yamunanagar, on Jan 14, 2009 10:39 AM

thats a very good achivements for indians.ISRO has dine a termendous job.m just waiting for man moon mission .by this chandrayaan mission proved that we r also in the race of science world and we r not less from any one. jai hind

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Yumkay

,Mumbai, on Jan 14, 2009 09:26 AM

can they point chandrayaan to get pictures of the moon landing sites by USA in the 60's? if as claimed by the americans the flag etc was planted and left behind, we should be able to see pictures of the same. as far as i'm concerned, usa never went to the moon, and chandrayaan pictures can prove it.

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Sharad

,Delhi, on Jan 14, 2009 03:03 AM

Some great news after Mumbai carnage

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rakesh

,delhi, on Jan 13, 2009 09:45 PM

Great

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reddy

,hyderabad, on Jan 13, 2009 06:01 PM

India is great. It sends rockets to the moon but fails to send red bus to thandas alleges praja rajyam president chiranjeevi reddy2007.blogspot.com