Chandrayaan 1 lets Lunar impactor on the loose

Sunday, November 16th, 2008 | science, space, technology

The Indian Moon probe Chandrayaan 1 has successfully entered into its operational orbit about 100km over the surface of the Moon.

On Friday the Moon Impact Probe was released for a crash landing near the Moon’s South Pole. While diving the impactor sent images and telemetry back to the orbiter, those will be relayed back to Earth at a slower pace. The descent took about 25 minutes and the data will be relayed in the next few days.

Instruments are beginning to be activated, and a new chapter in the lunar exploration is beginning.

The probe has already sent some very good images back, see link below.

Full story from

Spaceflight Now

ISRO’s Chandrayaan website

Lunar images from Chandrayaan

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