So, the Chandrayaan-1 achieved it's lunar orbit on 12-Nov, the Moon Impact Probe (crash) landed on 14-Nov and during it's short lifespan of 25 minutes beamed back valuable information to the mother ship! (Trust Pallava Bagla to use the word mothership!! :-) But now, what next?
When I turned to my trusted RSS feeds there were several reports from all over the world about India's great success.
BBC's article reporting the landing of the MIP made it to the most popular stories from South Asia. The news included one of the early pictures of the lunar surface that the MIP during it's descent; in fact one of the two pictures that ISRO had published a day earlier. The New York Times covered it as major news under it's World briefing about Asia section.
Pakistan too was watching the progress of Chandrayaan-1, as is apparent from this artice in The News, a daily to which I have subscribed.
Doing a back search on google.com for 14-Nov-2008 to today, I noticed 2350 hits by google news for the MIP. America launched Endeavour on the same day; it received 4273 hits. These may seem just bits of statistics but when appended with the information that several results for the MIP were in languages other than English, it shows how widespread the interest in the Chandrayaan-1 is.
This blog on Discover Magazine caught my eye with it's post about the two spacecrafts that were in the news that day Chandrayaan-1 and the Shuttle. As did this article in The Telegraph with it's quaint headline Breakneck suicide dive gifts India a ‘beautiful’ moon :-)
The next exciting event to look forward to will be the first 3-D picture of the Moon’s terrain, taken by the TMC on board Chandrayaan. They are expected to be processed on 17-Nov-2008. Happy viewing!
When I turned to my trusted RSS feeds there were several reports from all over the world about India's great success.
BBC's article reporting the landing of the MIP made it to the most popular stories from South Asia. The news included one of the early pictures of the lunar surface that the MIP during it's descent; in fact one of the two pictures that ISRO had published a day earlier. The New York Times covered it as major news under it's World briefing about Asia section.
Pakistan too was watching the progress of Chandrayaan-1, as is apparent from this artice in The News, a daily to which I have subscribed.
Doing a back search on google.com for 14-Nov-2008 to today, I noticed 2350 hits by google news for the MIP. America launched Endeavour on the same day; it received 4273 hits. These may seem just bits of statistics but when appended with the information that several results for the MIP were in languages other than English, it shows how widespread the interest in the Chandrayaan-1 is.
This blog on Discover Magazine caught my eye with it's post about the two spacecrafts that were in the news that day Chandrayaan-1 and the Shuttle. As did this article in The Telegraph with it's quaint headline Breakneck suicide dive gifts India a ‘beautiful’ moon :-)
The next exciting event to look forward to will be the first 3-D picture of the Moon’s terrain, taken by the TMC on board Chandrayaan. They are expected to be processed on 17-Nov-2008. Happy viewing!
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