Saturday, November 15, 2008

Chandrayaan-1 Update

Here is another update on India's mission to the moon. Chandrayaan-1 has is now in a succesfful orbit around the moon and sending back a data stram. It lauched a probe and the moon probe made impact with the surface as planned. According to the CNN report the probe was traveling at 1.6 KM per second. That is pretty fast. It probably was obliterated when it landed. However, they were able to see telemetry from the probe as it traveled down. Chandrayann-1, continues to orbit the moon and is sending back data.

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