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India to launch 'Chandrayaan-2' by 2013 | Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) chief K Radhakrishnan on Wednesday said the configuration for the new moon mission 'Chandrayaan-2' is being finalized and added that it would be launched by 2013. Chandrayaan-2, which
will be a joint effort between ISRO and Russia , will consist of a lander and
a rover for a soft land on moon. The rover will move on the surface of the moon
and pick up samples of rocks and soil and conduct a chemical analysis on it. The
data would then be sent to the spacecraft orbiting above. "We are finalizing the
configuration for Chandrayaan-2. This mission will have an orbiter, which will
carry the lander and a rover. The lander will bring the rover to the surface of
the moon and during the time it is there, (it) will take some samples to be analyzed
in the orbiter and back to the earth. In the orbiter we will have certain instruments,
we are finalizing which are those to be put there. It is about 50 kilograms of
mass. There is a scientific team which is looking at the requirements and possibilities
and also .... from Chandrayaan-1 experiment," said Radhakrishnan, on the sidelines
of the launch of a book titled 'Mission Moon - Exploring the Moon with
Chandrayaan-1'
here. Space scientists present there delved on colonization of the moon. "The
lunar environment neither has an atmosphere nor a magnetic field, so the radiation
from the sun can directly hit us and severely damage our cells, which can cause
cancer. So you need to get into areas where you can avoid radiation; therefore,
the concept of tunnel came in. We are trying to look at tunnels where one can
get in and live. Though virtually from a big civilization we will all become cavemen
again," said Kasturi Rangan, former ISRO Chairman. ISRO launched
Chandrayaan-1 on October 22, 2008, joining the Asian space race in the footsteps
of l China and reinforcing its claim to be considered a global power. The cuboid
shaped Chandrayaan-1 carried the U.S. space agency NASA's Moon Mineralogy
Mapper, or M3, which found water molecules all over the moon's surface. The
findings were further corroborated by three other reports. |
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