Friday, October 31, 2008

CHANDRAYAAN-1 BEAMS PICTURES OF EARTH























Indian are fascinated by moon from ancient days and now 21st century India is ready to land on moon!!!Chandrayaan is the mission towards that dream. Chandrayaan-1,India's spacecraft to the moon has taken two wonderful images of that from very far distance on 29 October.The pictures are taken by the Terrain Mapping Camera(TMC).The very first image taken by TMC at 8am on oct 29from the height of 9,000km showas the north coast of Australia.The second image taken at 12.30pm from the height of 70,000km shows the Australia's southern coast.The TMC is an image instrument built by a space Applications Center,Ahmedabad of the ISRO

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