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[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

An update: NASA publishes information and scientific data:

http://m3science.geo.brown.edu/?cat=3

[Pradeep]

ISRO has released more images today from its on-board Terrain Mapping Camera or TMC.

Link: http://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan/htmls/ImageMoon.htm

The ISRO Chairman also announced today that Chandrayaan II design is ready and will land on the Moon in the year 2012, also stating India's Mars mission will fly in 2013 among many other announcements.

News report: http://www.hinduonnet.com/holnus/000200812241582.htm

pradeep

[Phil Stooke]

Thank you, Pradeep - a welcome update. Now I look forward to more news about MIP! But I suspect we will have to wait until LPSC for that.

Phil Stooke

[Pradeep]

I do not know a specific answer to your question. But I do not think putting data/information online is too much of a priority for ISRO.

Places where you may find the data analysis etc earlier are probably journals or publications. You should also watch their newsletter (half-yearly) or their Annual Report.

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

What is LPSC?

[imipak]

Please, my dear Zvezdichko, don't take this personally; it's just that I've been dying for a chance to use it since someone did it to me..!

http://tinyurl.com/988nwg

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

Oh, yes, I see. It's "London Practical Shooting Club"

And Merry Christmas.

[Hungry4info]

Freaking awesome link, thanks ^_^

By the way, when is that descent probe video coming out?

And Merry Christmas to everyone here.

[Pradeep]

Looks like more news coming from Chandrayaan 1. This time from NASA's on-board instrument, the Moon Minerealogical Mapper or M3 having found iron-based minerals.

Here's the news link: http://www.hinduonnet.com/holnus/000200812252113.htm

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

Looks like more news coming from Chandrayaan 1. This time from NASA's on-board instrument, the Moon Minerealogical Mapper or M3 having found iron-based minerals.

Here's the news link: http://www.hinduonnet.com/holnus/000200812252113.htm

This is old. Your data is already available: http://m3science.geo.brown.edu/

[Phil Stooke]

http://twitter.com/Chandrayaan1

Twitter reports that there will be a press release with results by the end of January.

Phil

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

Images of the far side of the Moon? Where? I cannot find the images.

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

http://www.isro.org/pslv-c11/photos/moon_images.htm

Here! Published just a minute ago... I'm probably the first one to see them!

[Pradeep]

hi,


A frequent question here was whatever happened to the Moon Impact Probe images. The images are currently at Ahmedabad, India's Physical Research Laboratory. There is said to be about 3200 frames of images with the last one captured just 2 to 3 kms above the surface. You will have to wait for some more time for the video.

The same news story also tried to show why India's 3D atlas map would probably be better than any of the ones already released so far would be. Instead of posting the whole thing here, I'll leave you with the news report (this is not a press release from ISRO).

ISRO doesn't work at the speed of NASA/ESA or doesn't do too many press releases and information releases like NASA/ESA. Coming from ISRO, absence of any updates, means they're hard at work and not anything else. It is slightly irritating to see the constant need for information with updates expected on nearly day-to-day basis.

warm regards,
Pradeep

[Pradeep]

To read more on Phil Stooke's report refers to this news report.

ISRO Chairman has said that so far Chandrayaan 1 has returned about 35,000 images back to Earth (all instruments put together). The scientists (this is perhaps a reference to the PIs) will come together, discuss their findings (probably as some kind of peer review of the results?) and announce it publicly, hopefully by the end of January. Currently, data is going through some preliminary analysis.