ИНДИЙСКАЯ ЛУНА

[GALIN]

According to initial reports, MIP has survived the landing. I'll be studying the debris for more details along with data sent back

Impact was close to Shackleton crater

Geting mixed info about status of MIP. Still awaiting official word from ground control after data analysis.

http://twitter.com/Chandrayaan1

[Имxотеп]

Пресс-релиз ИСРО: чуда не произошло, аппарат погиб

[GALIN]

http://www.isro.org/pslv-c11/photos/imagesfromchandrayaan/VIS_2936.bmp

http://www.isro.org/pslv-c11/photos/imagesfromchandrayaan/VIS_2904.bmp

[Имxотеп]

то же самое в jpg:



Пишут, что MIP промахнулся на 2 км мимо Шеклтона.

[Имxотеп]

ИНДУСтриализация Луны



Мадхаван Наир дарит Абдул Каламу модель Луны с индийским флагом.

[GALIN]

Moon impact probe device sends vital videos [/size]

...the Moon Impact Probe, has generated 15,000 video frames that ISRO wants to weave into a movie.

"We plan to animate every frame into a movie form to document the 25-minute descent over a distance of 100 km. This will prepare us to design our next mission for a soft-landing," Mr M. Annadurai, Project Director for Chandrayaan-1 ...

[sol]

так с какой высоты он отослал последний снимок и какое там разрешение?

и вопрос - снимал и передавал до удара или прекратил с какой-то высоты?

(вспомнилисьамериканские рейнджеры - те снимали до упора)

[Андрей Суворов]

У них упор случался довольно высоко - скорость передачи снимков была маленькой

[Имxотеп]

на  "Чандраяне" потихоньку включают научные приборы.


Крупнее

Вот первые снимки камеры TMC, фрагмент лунной повехности возле кратера Моретус.  Разрешение снимка 5 м/пиксель (у Кагуи ~10 м/пиксель).

[ronatu]

Friday towards the Moon, hitting the surface 25 minutes later.

The probe impacted near the Moon's south pole.

The probe carried a video camera, radar altimeter, and mass spectromter that returned data during the descent;

The probe did not survive the landing, as expected.

The probe was also deocrated in the colors of India's flag.

[ronatu]

BCEHAPODHOE /\UKOBAHUE

Bangalore, Nov 15 (IANS)

A day after landing India's first probe instrument on the surface of the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was Saturday getting ready to activate eight other scientific instruments on board the country's first unmanned lunar spacecraft, Chandrayaan-1, that is now orbiting the moon and will do so for the next two years.

The box-shaped 35-kg moon impact probe (MIP), with the colours of the Indian flag painted on its four sides, touched down on the lunar surface at 8.31 p.m. Friday. It has sent high quality images of the moon taken while descending the 100 km to its destination after detaching from Chandrayaan-1.

The primary objective of landing the MIP was to demonstrate the technologies required for landing a probe at a designated location. Through this probe, it is also intended to qualify some of the technologies related to future soft landing missions. MIP has been developed by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, a unit of ISRO.

"We are analysing the images and other data sent by MIP. We are also getting ready to switch on and test the remaining eight payloads (scientific instruments) of the spacecraft in the coming few days," an ISRO spokesperson told IANS Saturday.

"We have not yet decided the dates and timing to carry out this exercise but it will be pretty soon," the spokesperson said.

The MIP is the third of the eleven payloads that has begun functioning. Earlier the Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) and Radiation Dose Monitor (RADOM) were switched on while Chandrayaan-1 was on its way to the moon, around 384,000 km from Earth.

The payloads on Chandrayaan-1 include five entirely designed and developed in India, three instruments from European Space Agency (one developed jointly with India and another with Indian contribution), one from Bulgaria and two from the US.

The Indian payloads include a terrain mapping camera (TMC) to map the lunar topography, capturing black and white 3-D images. It can also photograph a 20 km-wide strip of the lunar surface from as close as five metres.

Chandrayaan-1 will use high resolution remote sensing in the visible, near infrared, microwave and X-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum to map the moon. It will enable preparation of a 3-D atlas of the lunar surface and help map it chemically.

Such high resolution imaging would help in better understanding the process of lunar evolution. Used with data from lunar laser ranging instrument (LLRI), it can help in better understanding of its gravitational field as well.

The camera has been built by Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad.

The Hyperspectral Imager (HySI), another camera built by SAC, is designed to obtain data for mapping minerals on the lunar surface as well as for understanding the mineralogical composition its interior.

The LLRI will provide data for determining the accurate altitude of Chandrayaan-1 above the lunar surface. Data from LLRI will also enable understanding internal structure of the moon and the way large surface features of the moon have changed with time. It has been built by the ISRO Lab for Electro Optic Systems (LEOS), Bangalore.

Chandrayaan-1 will use a High Energy X-ray Spectrometer (HEX) to carry out the first spectral studies of 'hard' X-ray energies using good energy resolution detectors. HEX is designed to help explore the possibility of identifying polar regions covered by thick water-ice deposits as well as in identifying regions of high uranium and thorium concentrations. HEX is built jointly by the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) of Ahmedabad and ISRO.

The foreign payloads include C1XS of European Space Agency for high quality x-ray spectroscopic mapping of the moon, Near Infra Red spectrometer (SIR-2) of Germany and ESA, Sub keV Atom Reflecting Analyser (SARA) from ESA in collaboration with ISRO, Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (Mini-SAR) and Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) from the United States and RADOM of Bulgaria.

Lunar landing has Indians over the moon

There was exultation, a feeling that India had arrived, when the national tricolour was placed on the lunar surface Friday night. With India's moon mission Chandrayaan already a reality, people are now wondering if the next step could be a holiday on the moon!

The Indian flag was planted on the lunar surface when the 35-kg box-shaped Moon Impact Probe (MIP) landed on the moon at 8.31 p.m. Friday night after being ejected from Chandrayaan-1, India's first unmanned spacecraft.

Newspapers expressed the excitement among the people with headlines like - "India leaves its footprints on the moon" in the Hindu, and a similar "Indian footprint on lunar surface" in The Statesman. The Hindustan Times had a patriotic - "The tricolour has landed", while the Indian Express termed it as - "India touches the moon".

All the papers termed the MIP landing on the lunar surface as a "giant leap, a first step". India is the fourth country to have landed a manmade object on the moon, the others being the former USSR, the US and Japan.

While scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation, who were behind the extraordinary feat, have been literally over the moon at the mission going off exactly according to plan, for thousands of Indians it has been a proud moment that they can't stop talking about.

Mahesh Sharma, a student who has been absorbing every detail of the lunar mission with great interest, has his sights set far ahead. "There has been talk about space tourism and I really can't wait for that to happen. I want to spend a holiday on the moon. With such achievements as the Chandrayaan's launch, I believe anything is possible."

Rajan Das, a Class 9 student of Delhi Public School, has been keeping an eager eye on all the latest updates of India's unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 ever since its successful launch Oct 22. And when the Indian flag was placed on the lunar surface Friday, he was literally over the moon!

"I am so happy! I have a lot of friends outside India who I have met through social networking sites like Facebook and Orkut. Ever since I have come to know that our flag has found its place on the moon, I haven't stopped raving about it to all of them!" Das told IANS.

"I am so proud, just so proud," said Rakhi Bajaj, a school teacher.

"My patriotic feelings have been evoked ever since the Chandrayaan was successfully launched and now when our national flag has been placed on the moon, my pride has grown even more," she said.

Superstar Amitabh Bachchan also couldn't stop showering praise on the lunar feat. "This is a remarkable achievement from a country dubbed as belonging to the third world and one that is nomenclatured as a developing nation," Bachchan wrote in his blog www.bigb.bigadda.com

"There is pride amongst us. The world looks at us no longer with tinted glasses. God bless India," Bachchan said.

[ronatu]

India emerging as major space power

Pallava Bagla
Saturday, November 15, 2008 6:57 PM (Bangalore)

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/moonmission/Election_Story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080072744

[ronatu]

Moon, the symbol of culture and religion
Moin Khadri, Radhika Bordia

For the people of India, there is so much mythology attached to the moon.


Rajasthani art form inspired by the moon
Rajan Mahan

India's fascination with the moon is not just limited to Chandrayaan.

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/moonmission/Story.aspx?ID=FEAEN20080068748&type=ethos

Beyond the moon landing
By H. K. Dua

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20081116/main3.htm

[sol]

5 м - это не предел для камер Чандры?

Может, посадочные ступени Аполлонов рассмотрят? (Или хотя бы тени от них)

А еще интересно - увидят ли они кратер от импакта свеженькай...

[GALIN]

Terrain Mapping Camera

(video)

 1:10-1:55 - rim of Moretus crater (link)

[SAV]

BCEHAPODHOE /\UKOBAHUE

Учитывая роль Луны в религиях Востока и Индии в частности – не удивительно.

[Boo]

http://www.isro.org/pslv-c11/photos/imagesfromchandrayaan/tmc-polar-region.jpg
Явные полосы в направлении с верхнего левого в нижний правый угол, градусов 35 к горизонтальному краю снимка. На артефакт не похоже.

[Reader]

24.11.2008 / 11:20    Чандраян-1 полностью завершил все запланированные космические маневры
     В Индийской организации космических исследований ISRO сегодня сообщили, что первый лунный аппарат Индии Чандраян-1 полностью завершил все запланированные космические маневры, включил все запланированные научные инструменты и начал принимать сигналы со спускаемой капсулы, которая опустилась на поверхность Луны более недели назад.
     По словам главы ISRO Мадхавана Наира, теперь аппарат полностью перешел в обычный режим работы и до конца сегодняшнего дня инженерам предстоит получить диагностические данные с двух второстепенных узлов спутника.
     "Пока все идет почти идеально по плану, некоторые рутинные операции еще предстоит выполнить, после чего аппарат займется научной деятельностью и составлением трехмерной карты лунной поверхности", - сказал он.
     Индийские инженеры также отмечают, что на спускаемой лунной капсуле, работающей сейчас на поверхности Луны в пятницу включилась стереокамера, которая будет создавать панорамные стереоизображения лунного ландшафта. Роскосмос.

Я удивлен, это правда?

[Имxотеп]

Глупость конечно. Из-за неудачного термина "hard landing" MIP уже вторую неделю "сажают" на поверхность.
По поводу последнего пассажа Роскосмоса. В оригинале не имелось ввиду, что кто-то что-то "начал принимать". Там написано, что "with the terrain mapping camera of the Moon Impact Probe (MIP), stereoscopic pictures of the moon would be available". Тобишь нагенерят из имеющихся снимков 3D-панорамы.

[Александр Геннадьевич Шлядинский]

Да уж, извиняюсь за выражение переводчики. Напугали до полусмерти  :shock: