... has been made by data acquired by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) onboard India's Chandrayaan-1 mission launched in 2008. In the past, both the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) detected signatures that were...
The remnants of India's Chandrayaan 2 Vikram lander, which crash landed on the Moon in September have been found. The lander was targeted ...
... surface (an easier manoeuvre than making a controlled landing). The Chandrayaan-2 mission is set to follow with a lunar orbiter, lander... vehicles. The Indian Space Research Organisation's Chandrayaan-1 mission carried NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper,...
...’s south pole (left) and north pole (right) as viewed by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) spectrometer onboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 orbiter. The water ice, now also confirmed by NASA’s LCROSS mission and currently estimated at over a billion...
..., is expected to have more scientific content. The first was a natural follow-up to India’s maiden mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1 in 2008, which discovered water. The success of the lunar mission had given confidence to the Indian space...
... post-doctoral positions, he was recruited as staff member to ESA in February 2003. He has worked on projects including Huygens, Chandrayaan-1, Venus Express, Mars Express, and ExoMars and since January 2015 as project scientist for JUICE.