{"id":116,"date":"2008-11-15T00:07:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T00:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2008\/11\/india-lands-on-the-moon.html"},"modified":"2008-11-15T00:07:43","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T00:07:43","slug":"india-lands-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2008\/11\/india-lands-on-the-moon.html","title":{"rendered":"India lands on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is truly a historic achievement for India<\/a> and the world:<\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

India’s
\nfirst unmanned lunar probe has landed successfully on the moon, a
\nmilestone for the country’s 45-year-old space programme.<\/p>\n

The moon-landing on Friday is part of a two-year mission that lays
\nthe groundwork for further Indian space expeditions, the Indian Space
\nResearch Organisation (ISRO) said.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

G
\nMadhavan Nair, the ISRO chairman, said that cameras on board had
\ntransmited images of the moon back to Indian space control, the Press
\nTrust of India news agency reported.<\/p>\n

The moon mission was launched from the Sriharikota space centre in southern India on October 22.<\/p>\n

Scientific study<\/strong><\/p>\n

The box-shaped lunar probe carried a video imaging system, a radar altimeter and a mass spectrometer.<\/p>\n

The video imaging system was intended to take the pictures of the
\nmoon’s surface, the radar altimeter was to measure the rate of descent
\nof the probe to the lunar surface and the mass spectrometer was for
\nstudying the extremely thin lunar atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The Moon Impact Probe was one of the 11 payloads of the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, a space agency statement said.<\/p>\n

To date only the US, Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and China and now India have sent missions to the moon.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that somewhere, Kalpana Chawla<\/a> is smiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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