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Chandrayaan Terrain Mapping Camera Sends Pictures
Bangalore, India (SPX) Nov 18, 2008 India's unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has beamed two pictures that displays many large and small craters on the moon surface. The pictures taken by the spacecraft's Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) on November 15 over the polar region of the moon shows many large and small craters, ISRO sources said. Another picture sent by TMC has filmed the bright terrain on the lower left of the rim of 117 km wide moretus crater and the equatorial region of the moon. The picture shows the uneven surface of the moon with numerous craters. On the lower left, part of the Torricelli crater is seen.
related report ISRO has started necessary research workfor the next mission for which the Centre has sanctioned necessary funds, Chandrayaan-I Project Director Mylswamy Annadurai told reporters. The second mission would be a fully indigenous one, he said. Chandrayan-I is the best thing to happen to Indian space research and is designed to study the water availability and fertile standards of moon, he said. The moon mission has proved that India is on par with any other nation which ventured to the earth's satellite, he said. Stating that the pictures being received from moon were giving very valuable inputs, he said steps are being made to get continuous pictures by making some technical corrections. Earlier, the Scientist was felicitated by the public at different places in Coimbatore district for the successful launch of the country's moon mission. Accepting the felicitations, Annadurai exhorted the students to shelve their foreign dreams as opportunities were available within India. The days of foreign students coming to India in pursuit of research works and higher studies were not far away, he said.
Source: Press Trust of India
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