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This is Rima Hadley the Apollo 15 Landing Site. The newer films of this from 2009 are much much clearer. Astrophotography by htp://www.youtube.com/johnlenardwalson audio by http://www.youtube.com/gridkeeper
Re-inventing the wheel: India's moon mission justified?
Pallavi Paul / CNN-IBN
Published on Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 16:57 in Sci-Tech section
New Delhi: Half of one billion Indians earn less than Rs 18 a day — not enough to buy one square meal a day. Yet, we've just spent Rs 386 crore to send a metal box to the moon. Why?
It's not just the civics, it's also the science. There have already been 67 moon missions till date. Man has landed, photographed and even taken samples from the moon. So, why are we re-inventing the wheel?
I'm not sure if I can justify that the scientific part of this mission is truly outstanding, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, H Mukunda says.
Chandrayaan is the cheapest moon mission ever. The money spent on it is less than the price of a Boeing 747, less than one-tenth the price of telecast rights to the Indian Premier League, and just 4 per cent of ISRO's budget for three years.
What do we get in the bargain:
The first three-dimensional map of the entire moon
X-ray data unraveling what lies beneath the surface
Proof of existence of water
A look at whether humans can make a home there
Likelihood of finding alternative sources of energy
We know that moon has Helium 3, which could provide energy to the earth for trillions of year, chairman, ISRO, K Kasturirangan says.
But thats not all. Space launches also mean big business.
Antrix Corporation, ISRO's commercial wing, raked in Rs 900 crore last year, launching sixteen foreign satellites in the past two years and selling remote sensing data from our own satellites.
Destination Moon
Chandrayaan is now 2,67,000 km away from the moon. On November 3, it will be pushed to 384,000 km and five days later, it would finally enter the moon's orbit.
But why does it need to orbit earth so long? ISRO's using the earth's gravity to fling the craft further and further away. Tiny Chandrayaan has only 819 kg of fuel on board, not enough for a straight-out trek to the moon.
link to above article: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/reinventing-the-wheel-indias-moon-mission-justifie...
India's moon mission
By William Hobson
Last updated: Tue 11th Nov 2008 at 11:22
Photo by: Luke Simmonds
The first Indian space mission to the moon blasted off last Wednesday morning without a hitch. The Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft is an unmanned probe on a two year mission to explore our largest natural satellite.
The Chandrayaan 1 weighs about 1.5 tonnes, and will carry a £45m price tag by the time the mission finishes.
The Indian Space Agency (ISRO) hopes to complete a 3D atlas of the lunar surface, as well as search for a variety of rare elements, and confirm or deny the long-hoped for presence of water below the surface.
The mission probe will carry instruments from NASA and the European Space Agency as well as the ISRO.
Comparisons with China's achievement last month of successfully carrying out an independent space walk have come from many sources, with references made to an 'Asian space race'.
China, Japan and India have all set a target date of at least 2025 for a manned mission to the moon, and even smaller powers such as South Korea have ambitious plans for space programmes.
This expansion of the space exploration effort to Eastern powers stands in contrast to the situation in the western nations; previously this month the European Space Agency delayed its flagship ExoMars project due to budget concerns, and in the US the future of NASA has come under question over similar concerns in the current economic crisis.
India has set itself a target of 2015 for a manned space mission to rival China's. However the ISRO has come under strong domestic and foreign criticism as a target for misuse of badly needed public funds, in a country where 800 million people live on less than $2 a day.
link to above article
http://www.upsu.net/news/news/science/2008/10/30/indias-moon-mission-3729.html
So wouldn't it be interesting if a space agency other than Nasa took pictures of the apollo flag and other bits and pieces. Would this prove that nasa landed men on the moon? No it wouldn't prove shit, just open up more questions. Grid.
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Moon filmed on the 14.4.08 with an 8" telescope,Tower incby GRIDKEEPER69,413 views
It's no longer there because they're fiming a model of the moon!
Bugstomper2 2 years ago
Don't be an idiot.
GRIDKEEPER 2 years ago
Man I must be blind! I stare and stare and stare and I just can't work out what I'm looking at :( The writing is huge, but more than that lol and im serious an arrow pointing to a still pic and then a comparrison would be needed I think for me to have any idea what you all see or not as the case may be. I applaud you both however for doing what you're doing I just wish I could see it. Don't get me wrong it's not like madmod where I really have absolutely ni, anyhoo sorry, love and light
bicarb69 2 years ago 2
Hi look at the video "Thirteen by gridkeeper" and you will find what you're looking for. It's on my music channel, I'll put a link to it in the video description to the right of this video. This area is the Apollo 15 Landing area called Rima Hadley.
GRIDKEEPER 2 years ago
Walson's Peak didn't really vanished you're just looking at the opposite side of the moon...
CASE CLOSED
LoveOlderWomen 3 years ago
"CASE CLOSED" - CASE RE-OPENED, How can one look at another part of the moon and pass it off for something which it is not? This is the area where apollo 15 landed and has been shown in many other videos. The latest one also shows this area close up and the peak CANNOT be seen. Maybe I'll make a new video just for you and actuall show the two bits of footage next to you so you can see this is true.
GRIDKEEPER 3 years ago