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Chandrayaan-1 now in lunar orbit

10 November 2008

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This artist's concept shows the Indian lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1. The spacecraft will carry two European experiments on board which are direct descendents of ESA's SMART-1 - the infrared spectrometer, SIR2, and the X-ray spectrometer, C1XS, to study the mineralogy and the chemical composition of the lunar surface. The third European instrument on board is the SARA Sub-kiloelectronvolt Atom Reflecting Analyser, that will study the interaction between the lunar surface and the solar wind.

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This image of Earth was taken by ISRO’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft while on its way to the Moon on 29 October 2008, at 08:00 CET (12:30 Indian local time). The image was obtained by the Terrain Mapping camera (TMC), one of the 11 instruments on board, and shows the Southern coast of Australia from a height of 70 000 km.

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