Chandrayaan-I Impact Probe lands on moon

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29 points·baroova··11 comments

I have never said this before, but.. w00t!

we owned other team?

I wish countries were taken seriously by big G-8 nations based on, say, how much space exploration they did rather than how many nuclear weapons they have (the nuclear club).

And I wish life were a neverending frolic on a mountainside covered with bacon-flavoured daisies. But what's your point?

Can they be programmable bacon-flavoured daisies?

India had nuclear weapons since 1974.

Here's an ISRO page with more details - http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Nov14_2008.htm

screenshot or it didn't happen

I thought the same thing.

Where is a picture or some other direct or indirect evidence. Not only does it help prove that you did it but it's great for all the inevitable media coverage. NASA has seemed to have learned this over they years; they always come up with some graphic or image for their big releases.

After checking out the wiki article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1

I found out it does have a camera. And that it's been tested:

http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Oct31_2008.htm

yeh, "the orbiter has to come back around to this side of the moon before we can get a transmission of the recorded event" was the answer i got in my research of it.

pfah, a likely excuse... :D

http://www.isro.org/pslv-c11/photos/moon_images.htm

Something tells me we're not going to see images of the MIP and the moon at the same time since the impact would likely wipe out the camera.

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