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.
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