Chanda mama door ke ... remembering dat rhyme we used to sing as kiddoz.... I am pretty excited bout India's exploration of the moon in 2008.. yo!
I actualy wanna go to the moon :D n m looking forward to meeting some friendly aliens there :D with whom I can have a tete-a-tete.. and maybe play some games :)
Aww! what a smart and handsome alien ;)
(uhhh.. frankly speaking.. i dint like dis look :O)Ok.... back to reading....read on:
Chandrayan Pratham: India's gonna explore the moon.... :)
India has announced that it plans to explore the Moon and will send an unmanned probe there by 2008.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) calls the Moon flight project Chandrayan Pratham, which has been translated as First Journey to the Moon or Moonshot One.
The 1,157-lb. Chandrayan-1 would be launched in 2007 or 2008 on one of India's own Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) space rockets.
At first, the spacecraft would circle Earth in a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO). From there, it would fly on out into a polar orbit of the Moon some 60 miles above the lunar surface.
The Chandrayan-1 mission would carry X-ray and gamma-ray spectrometers and would send back data that scientists on Earth would use to produce a high-resolution digital map of the lunar surface.
The project's main objectives are high-resolution photography of the lunar surface using remote-sensing instruments sensitive to visible light, near-infrared light, and low-energy and high-energy X-rays. Space aboard the satellite also will be available for instruments from scientists in other countries.
Source: Space Today