India's Moon Mission

Now its India turn to join the elite club.

*The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced that the first lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1, from India landed successfully on the moon on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's birthday. The Indian flag was painted on the sides of Moon Impact Probe (MIP), one of the 11 payloads of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, that successfully hit the lunar surface on November 14th, at 20:31 hrs (8:31 pm) IST. This is the first Indian built object to reach the surface of the moon. The point of MIP's impact was near the Moon's South Polar Region. It may be recalled that the modern Indian space program was initiated in 1962 when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister of India. The two-year mission is aimed to map not only the surface of the moon, but what lies beneath. The unmanned moon mission was launched Oct. 22 from the Sriharikota space center in southern India. The box-shaped probe carried a video imaging system, a radar altimeter and a mass spectrometer. ISRO spokesman B.R. Guruprasad said that the probe from the orbiting mother spacecraft took pictures and gathered other data India needs for a future moon landing as it plummeted to a crash-landing at the moon's south pole.

ニュースアニメ「インド初の無人月探査機、月面着陸に成功」
インド初の無人月探査機「チャンドラヤーン１号」が、月面着陸に成功したと、インド宇宙研究機関（ISRO）が発表した。「チャンドラヤーン」はサンスクリット語で「月の­乗り物」の意。１０月２２日にインド南部スリハリコタの宇宙センターから打ち上げられ、ネルー初代インド首相の誕生日でもある１１月１４日に月面に着陸した。元首相は１９­６２年に近代インドの宇宙計画を打ち出しており、ISROは歴史的な日になったと述べている。月探査を成功させた国は、現在まで旧ソ連、米、日、欧（ESA）、中となるが­、今回の打ち上げはこれに次ぐものとなる。今後２年間をかけ、月面の様子を詳しく調べるほか、水や氷の存在についても調査する。今回の打ち上げにかかった費用は３８億６千­万ルピー。

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[123market456]

Only two countries out of the 200 countries that we had in the 60's and 70's did it. In this decade two other countries joined namely Japan and India in its recent endavour. So its a great feat since only 4 countries have done it. The moons had been forgotten since the 60's anyway.

[jasperduf]

In 60's India was stabilizing itself after Brittish colonization.Today India have its flag in moon and Britts dont.Irony.

PS: It is a moon impact probe, just like name says it impacted into surface to study the structure of debris NOT crashing.lol.

Dont post ur studpid knowledge bytheway!

[jids56]

i hate or dont like indians at times.

[anilmaurya572]

@longlivebrasil777 :atleast they used some thing...wht did ur coutry did so far& esp u did....oh!yeah frgt,be jealous of it and cry:D..Hail to INdian scientist...gud luck for many en devours in future...and remaining suckers...cry foul of it,.,.coz we don;t care u pathatic losers :)

[HanZeroon]

Lol you guys are worser than pakistanis, however you spell it. Just saying thirdworld country!

[Teranex]

@wiigamer136 True that bro! Hi-Five :D.

[wiigamer136]

@Teranex

Idiot. Everyone has failures. Not everyone is perfect.

[Arestaeus]

@jasperduf Lol

[longlivebrasil777]

they used curry rocket fuel

[Teranex]

@jasperduf Ya lol, like today when their rocket blew up...

[wiigamer136]

@jasperduf

We, (Indians) are very good at astronomy.

Even 37% of NASA's researchers are Indian.