Indian instruments aboard Chandrayaan-1 for lunar exploration
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 19:30 IST   |    2 Comments
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Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): India has not only sent its first lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 into space Wednesday to join a select group of six, many of the scientific instruments aboard the spacecraft are of Indian make too. Chandrayaan-1 is carrying 11 scientific instruments, called payloads. They include five entirely designed and developed in India, three instruments from European Space Agency (one developed jointly with India and another with Indian contribution), one from Bulgaria and two from the U.S. The Indian payloads include a terrain mapping camera (TMC). It will map the lunar topography, capturing black and white 3-D images. It can also image a 20 km-wide strip of lunar surface from as close as five metres. Chandrayaan-1 will use high resolution remote sensing in the visible, near infrared, microwave and X-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum to map the moon. It will enable preparation of a 3-D atlas of lunar surface and help it map chemically. Such high resolution imaging would help in better understanding the process of lunar evolution. Used with data f
Source: IANS
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