Another update on Twitter: Prelimitary results show that MIP has survived, I repeat, SURVIVED the landing!

Yet another update: They are getting "mixed info". I do not know what it means, but if MIP survived the landing, it will be the first spacecraft operating on the lunar surface since Luna 24.

First, thanks for keeping us up to date.

Is this true? I was not aware there was there even a remote chance of it surviving the impact. It is kind of like one of the Ranger’s surviving!

Ken, I heard rumours that the lander may survive the landing. I also thought it's impossible...Still waiting for official statement. I'm holding my breath

Survived? Whoa!, if true.
Reposting (bump) of twitter site: http://twitter.com/Chandrayaan1

"Impact was close to Shackleton crater."

So, not in the crater... or its wall?

Excitement.

I do hope that this turns out to be true. I'm not going to hold my breath though, I would think it'd be pretty rough on a spacecraft to hit the lunar surface at such a velocity. But I can hope. Any idea when we'll receive confirmation? Minutes? hours?

And if the probe survived, what could it possibly do on the lunar surface? I wouldn't think there's much you can do with a spacecraft that smacked into the moon at orbital speed, but if there's a functional probe on the moon now, I want pictures, haha.

According to this link:

http://www.indiandefenceforum.com/index.ph...topic=17476.460

Makes sense, thanks!

How fast was it travelling? According to that link, it hit the moon at 1.6 KM / Hr. That is how fast I drive to work in the morning. I assumed it was traveling much faster. Perhaps it did survive.

http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Nov14_2008.htm - Here's the official statement by ISRO.

Update: They answered me here: http://twitter.com/Chandrayaan1 . Unfortunately MIP died upon impact

Well, it was a fun thought while it lasted. Now, we can look forward to the imges!

There are still sources that report that "they got signal after it landed on the Moon":

http://www.care2.com/news/member/576059368/951900

but most probably they are wrong

What kind of images can we expect? Any idea where the lowest-altitude image was taken? Are we going to get to see boulders strewn across the landscape around Shackleton?

And let's hear it for the BBC. (still up at the time of writing):



"touched down" ... Clap. Clap. Clap.

(EDIT: I hasten to add that I'm not belittling this excellent achievement by ISRO, which I'm sure we all applaud - just saddened once again by lame BBC reporting of a science / technology story. (#INCLUDE <arts_grad_rant.h> )

http://www.isro.org/pslv-c11/photos/images...an/VIS_2936.bmp

http://www.isro.org/pslv-c11/photos/images...an/VIS_2904.bmp

These are the first images

You could have told me these image were from Saturnian sattelites, I'd have believed you.