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Chandrayaan-1 mission to the Moon

Goswami, Jitendra Nath; Annadurai, Mylswamy

Chandrayaan-1 is the first Indian planetary exploration mission that will perform remote sensing observation of the Moon to further our understanding about its origin and evolution. Hyper-spectral studies in the 0.4- 3µm region using three different imaging spectrometers, coupled with a low energy X-ray spectrometer, a sub-keV atom analyzer,…

Chandrayaan-1 mission blasts off to the Moon

Banks, Michael

India has launched its first mission to the Moon in a bid to create the highest resolution 3D maps of the lunar surface and provide a complete chemical mapping of the Moon's soil. The unmanned Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft successfully launched from Sriharikota, an island off the coast of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh last month.