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ISRO Begins Work On Chandrayaan-II Project
Chennai, India (PTI) Jan 19, 2009 ISRO has begun working on the Rs 425-crore second unmanned moon mission to be launched by early 2012 following the success of Chandrayaan-I, a top ISRO official said here on Saturday. Chandrayaan-II will focus on soil and mineral exploration on the lunar surface with the help of a robotic device and send back data, Chandrayaan Project Director Mayilsamy Annadurai told reporters here. The work had begun on the project and it was likely to be launched by end of 2011 or early 2012, he said. ISRO plans to send a manned flight to space in 2015 and the manned mission to the moon in 2020, he added. About Chandrayaan-I, he said it has beamed 40,000 pictures since its launch. The stakeholders of the project would meet soon to discuss the information beamed by India's successful lunar mission, Annadurai said. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Ancient Magnetic Field Shows That Moon Once Had A Dynamo In Its Core
Boston MA (SPX) Jan 16, 2009The collection of rocks that the Apollo astronauts brought back from the moon carried with it a riddle that has puzzled scientists since the early 1970s: What produced the magnetization found in many of those rocks? |
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