Moon Impact Probe's Stereoscopic Camera has Provided Very Good Images

The Moon Impact Probe (MIP) which was released from Chandrayaan-1 on 14 November 2008 from the final orbit of the spacecraft at 100 km altitude has taken 3,000 images using the stereoscopic camera onboard during its 25 minutes travel to the Moon's surface.

MIP Provided Very Good Images - Space Daily, 01 December 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 moon Probe a Big Hit - SpaceflightNow, 25 November 2008.

First RADOM Instrument Results

Earth and Moon Radiation Environment

Chandrayaan-1 Scientific Instruments Commissioned

ISRO Solves Heat Rise Problem and all 11 Instruments are Working Well - BBC News, 19 December 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 Operations are Normal despite Heat Rise: ISRO - Space Daily, 26 November 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 Science Data Being Analyzed, as Nine out of Eleven Instruments have been Activated - The Hindu, 26 November 2008.

Indian Moon Probe hit by Heat Rise, as spacecraft temperature reaches 50C prompting urgent measures by ISRO - BBC Online, 25 November 2008.

ISRO Commissions Chandrayaan-1 Scientific Instruments for Moon Observation - Space Daily, 25 November 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 Starts Observations of the Moon - European Space Agency (ESA) News, 24 November 2008.

Indian Space Science Data Center (ISSDC) to Track, Archive and Disseminate Science Data from Chandrayaan-1 and Future Space Exploration Missions - Frontline Magazine, 22 November 2008.

A Brief Overview of Chandrayaan-1 Scientific instruments:

Chandrayaan-1: Scientific Goals and Mission Objectives - N. Bhandari, Journal of Earth Systems Science, December 2005.

Scientific Challenges of CHANDRAYAAN-1: The Indian lunar polar orbiter mission - N. Bhandari, Current Science, Vol. 86, June 2004.

Moon Mineralogy Mapper: Instrument & Science - JPL, NASA.

Mini-SAR: An Imaging Radar for Chandrayaan-1 and LRO Missions - Ben Bussey, et.al., Workshop on LCROSS, NASA, 2006.

The C1XS X-Ray Spectrometer on Chandrayaan-1 - Manuel Grande, et.al., European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC Abstracts), 2008.


HySI, the Hyper Spectral Imager to Map the Lunar Surface in 64 Spectral Bands for the first time to Access the minerology of the Moon - The Hindu, 20 November 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 Turns On Three Scientific Instruments

India's first Moon Craft, Chandrayaan-1 successfully dispatched the Moon Impact Probe (MIP), painted on its four sides with the Indian national flag, on November 14, 2008 and it landed on the lunar surface after descending for 25 minutes. The spacecraft orbiting the Moon in a circular polar orbit of 100 km altitude has also truned on three instruments, namely, Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC), Radiation Dose Monitor (RADOM) and the Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI) for scientific data collection.

Lunar Equitorial Region picture taken by Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) aboard Chandrayaan-1

Lunar Polar picture taken by Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) aboard Chandrayaan-1

Chandrayaan-1 Marks the Beginning of long haul in ISRO's space exploration - The Hindu, 16 November 2008.

Moonshots Taken by MIP

Pictures Taken by Moon Impact Probe (MIP) As It Descended Towards the Surface of Moon

India Leaves its Footprint on Moon - The Hindu, 15 November 2008.

Indigenous Efforts Take India to the Moon - The Hindu, 15 November 2008.

Indian Probe Lands on the Moon

Moon Impact Probe (MIP), one of the 11 Science Instruments Onboard Chandrayaan-1 Detached from Mother Satellite and Landed on the Moon - Hindustan Times, 14 November 2008.

Indian Tricolor Placed on Moon's Surface on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's Birthday - ISRO, 14 November 2008. Indian Moon Probe touches down on Lunar Surface - BBC Online, 14 November 2008.

Indian Probe Crash-lands Successfully on Moon - CNN Online, 14 November 2008.

Indian Tricolor Reaches Lunar Surface - Space Daily, 14 November 2008.

Destination Moon: Special Reports on Chandrayaan-1

First Indian Mooncraft enters Lunar Orbit - SpaceFlightNow, 8 November 2008.

A Historic Voyage: India's First Mission for Lunar Exploration - Frontline Magazine, 5 November 2008.

How Chandrayaan-1 will help compile 3-D Atlas of the Moon - The Hindu, 6 November 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 Gallery - European Space Agency (ESA) Space Science Multimedia

CHANDRAYAAN-1: India's First Mission to Moon - ISRO website