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<p><strong><font size="2">First orbital reduction maneuver successful.</font></strong></p><p><font size="4">Perilune reduced to 200 KM. Apolune remains @&nbsp;7,502 KM.</font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>Andrew Brown.</strong><br /></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>
 
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Way to go ISRO! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#0000ff"><em>"SCE to AUX" - John Aaron, curiosity pays off</em></font></p> </div>
 
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Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Maybe this can put&nbsp;the last time&nbsp;into perspective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_in_music. :) <br />Posted by kelWe&nbsp;&nbsp; are&nbsp;&nbsp; emotionlvinzero</DIV><br />We&nbsp;&nbsp; are&nbsp;&nbsp; emotional&nbsp;&nbsp; over&nbsp;&nbsp; our&nbsp;&nbsp; space&nbsp;&nbsp; success.Nothing&nbsp;&nbsp; stupid.
 
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Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>We&nbsp;&nbsp; are&nbsp;&nbsp; emotional&nbsp;&nbsp; over&nbsp;&nbsp; our&nbsp;&nbsp; space&nbsp;&nbsp; success.Nothing&nbsp;&nbsp; stupid. <br />Posted by alokmohan</DIV><br />We&nbsp; are&nbsp;&nbsp; proud.
 
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<p>http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holn ... 112031.htm<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold">Chandrayaan-1 gets further closer to moon</span> <br /><br />Bangalore (PTI): Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft on Tuesday moved closer to the Moon with ISRO scientists carrying out orbit reduction manoeuvre at 18:30 hours for a duration of 31 seconds. </p><p><br />"The current orbit of Chandrayaan-1 is 255.3 km (the farthest distance from the moon) X 101.3 km (nearest distance to the moon). The orbital period is 2.09 hours", ISRO spokesperson S Satish told PTI. <br /><br />Further manoeuvres are planned in the coming days to bring the spacecraft to its final circular orbit of 100 kms above the moon's surface, Satish said.</p>
 
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JonClarke

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<p>Excellent!</p><p>I am hoping for a slew of abstracts from Chandrayaan (and even more from Chang'e and Kaguya) at the LPSC in March</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Whether we become a multi-planet species with unlimited horizons, or are forever confined to Earth will be decided in the twenty-first century amid the vast plains, rugged canyons and lofty mountains of Mars</em>  Arthur Clarke</p> </div>
 
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Does Chandrayann translate into something meaningful in English or is it a name? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------- </p><p>Wanna see this site looking like the old SDC uplink?</p><p>Go here to see how: <strong>SDC Eye saver </strong>  </p> </div>
 
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Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Maybe this can put&nbsp;the last time&nbsp;into perspective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_in_music. :) <br />Posted by kelvinzero</DIV><br /><p>CHENNAI: Chandrayaan-1 has reached its destination. The Indian spacecraft is now orbiting the moon over its poles at an altitude of about 100 km. </p><p>M. Annadurai, Project Director, said on Wednesday evening: &ldquo;The entire team is very happy that in three weeks from the launch on October 22, we could safely send Chandrayaan-1 to the moon without any hiccups.&rdquo; The Moon is 3,84,000 km from the Earth.</p><p>S.K. Shivakumar, Director, ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), Bangalore, called it &ldquo;a fulfilling mission.&rdquo; &ldquo;We were given the job of sending a spacecraft to the moon. We have realised the mission.&rdquo;</p><p>The spacecraft reached its final home after commands were radioed at 6.33 p.m. from the Spacecraft Control Centre (SCC), nerve-centre of the current operations at ISTRAC, to Chandrayaan-1&rsquo;s engine, Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM), to fire.</p><p>The engine fired for 58 seconds and Chandrayaan-1&rsquo;s aposelene (the farthest distance from the moon) was reduced from 255 km to about 100 km. On Tuesday, its periselene was reduced from 187 to about 100 km. Thus, after the last orbit reduction on Wednesday evening, Chandrayaan-1 was truly home.</p><font size="3" class="subsectionhead" color="#ff0000">11 instruments </font><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Chandrayaan-1 has 11 scientific instruments &mdash; five from India and six from abroad. Since Chandrayaan-1 is a remote-sensing spacecraft, it will help in identifying minerals and chemicals on the Moon. It will also look for the possible presence of water ice in the Moon&rsquo;s Polar Regions. Its Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC), built by India, will help in preparing a three-dimensional atlas of the entire surface of the Moon.</p><p>As the spacecraft has reached its destination now, Mr. Annadurai said: &ldquo;All activities lined up to commission the scientific instruments will start one after another.&rdquo; One of them, Moon Impact Probe (MIP), will be commanded on Friday to eject from the mother-spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 and it will crash on the Moon&rsquo;s surface. Of the remaining 10 instruments, the TMC has already been switched on and it has taken pictures <br />Hindu&nbsp; news&nbsp;&nbsp; paper.</p>
 
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<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Does Chandrayann translate into something meaningful in English or is it a name? <br />Posted by earth_bound_misfit</DIV><br /><br />chandrayaan=chandra ( Moon )&nbsp;&nbsp; +&nbsp; yaan ( Vehicle )</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; = moon-cart????&nbsp; or any better translation you can think of?</p>
 
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Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>chandrayaan=chandra ( Moon )&nbsp;&nbsp; +&nbsp; yaan ( Vehicle )&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; = moon-cart????&nbsp; or any better translation you can think of? <br />Posted by sssalvi</DIV><br /><br />Thanx!! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>
 
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<p>Here is a possible updated schedule of MIP drop:</p><p>1. Launch from Mother craft : 14:33 to 14:34 GMT <br />2. It will fly over the Malapert crater for about nine seconds.<br />3. Landing of Probe on Moon : Around 1500Hrs GMT on the Rim of&nbsp; Shackleton Crater ... velocity at the time of impact is abput 1.5Km/sec.<br /><br />The Mothership( CY1 ) will collect the data from probe but it will not be visible to Earth because it will be behind the moon when it collects the data.<br /><br />So the data will be downloaded when the Mothership re-emerges from near North Pole from behind the moon after half orbit period. </p>
 
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MIP landed on Moon:<br /><br /><br />BANGALORE, India (AFP) &mdash; An Indian probe <span style="font-weight:bold">landed on the moon</span> on Friday, the Indian Space Research Organisation announced, in a milestone for the country's 45-year-old space programme.<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight:bold">probe touched down</span> on the moon at 8:34pm (1504 GMT), 25 minutes after it was ejected from an unmanned spacecraft orbitting the moon, a spokesman said.<br /><br />The probe carrying three instruments and with the Indian flag painted on its outer panes <span style="font-weight:bold">settled in a crater</span> in the moon's south pole, spokesman S. Satish said.<br /><br />"During its descent from Chandrayaan-1 an<span style="font-weight:bold"> onboard video camera transmitted lunar pictures</span> to the ISRO command centre," Satish said in the southern Indian city of Bangalore where the national space agency is headquartered.<br /><br /><br />
 
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Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>MIP landed on Moon:BANGALORE, India (AFP) &mdash; An Indian probe landed on the moon on Friday, the Indian Space Research Organisation announced, in a milestone for the country's 45-year-old space programme.The probe touched down on the moon at 8:34pm (1504 GMT), 25 minutes after it was ejected from an unmanned spacecraft orbitting the moon, a spokesman said.The probe carrying three instruments and with the Indian flag painted on its outer panes settled in a crater in the moon's south pole, spokesman S. Satish said."During its descent from Chandrayaan-1 an onboard video camera transmitted lunar pictures to the ISRO command centre," Satish said in the southern Indian city of Bangalore where the national space agency is headquartered. <br />Posted by sssalvi</DIV><br /><br />Fantastic! Looking forward to the results. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>
 
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<font color="#333399"><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Fantastic! Looking forward to the results. <br /> Posted by MeteorWayne</DIV><br /></font>Follow along on <font color="#0000ff"><u>http://twitter.com/Chandrayaan1</u></font>&nbsp; and see if the probe survived! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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<p><font color="#333399"><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>...see if the probe survived! <br /> Posted by centsworth_II</DIV><br /></font>Oops!&nbsp; No such luck.</p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" color="#0000ff"> "Finally, the probe had a hard landing on the lunar surface that terminated its functioning.</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" color="#0000ff">" </font></p><font color="#000080"><u>http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Nov14_2008.htm</u></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'> Images From Chandrayaan-1 <br />Posted by centsworth_II</DIV><br /><br />One of the MIP close up images:</p><p><br /><img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/5/9/35066dd6-6e3c-41f5-89e4-f7ae9d7eb217.Medium.jpg" alt="" /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>
 
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<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#ff0000">Looking forward to see the whole video of MIP's descent. <br /> Posted by zhang</font></DIV></p><p><font size="2"><strong>I am too zhang. I do not think we'll have to wait long. ISRO got those images out quickly. Will be wonderful when we get to see the rest.&nbsp;</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>Wonder what the resolution was of the two released thus far are? I hope we get to see the final one before MIP impacted.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>This mission is goling so well. India, is really embracing the science & technology involved & for India, can only be a very good thing. Go India & thank you.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>Andrew Brown.&nbsp;</strong></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>
 
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<p>The images are 720X576 pixels, so I think the video-imaging device on MIP is a typical PAL TV camera, maybe. </p><p>Any info about the accurate location where the MIP hit? </p>
 
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<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#ff0000">The images are 720X576 pixels, so I think the video-imaging device on MIP is a typical PAL TV camera, maybe. Any info about the accurate location where the MIP hit? <br /> Posted by zhang</font></DIV></p><p><font size="2"><strong>Thanks Zhang,</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>I do not know where MIP actually impacted, though was not the rim of the South Polar Shackleton Crater the target? Dunno though if that was where MIP actually hit.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>Looking forward to seeing the entire descent & the final images.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>Andrew Brown.&nbsp;</strong></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>
 
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This is great! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Whether we become a multi-planet species with unlimited horizons, or are forever confined to Earth will be decided in the twenty-first century amid the vast plains, rugged canyons and lofty mountains of Mars</em>  Arthur Clarke</p> </div>
 
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<p>(moved from another thread)</p><p>I found this link:</p><p><font color="#5574b9">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JJ22Df02.html</font><br /><br />"Chandrayaan, meaning "moon vehicle" in Hindi, will "prepare a three-dimensional atlas [with a high spatial and altitude resolution of 5 millimeters to 10m] of both the near and the far side of the moon", according to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). <br />"</p><p>What do they mean by 5mm? What does that apply to and what does the 10m figure apply to?</p>
 
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