Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Our Next step to the Moon - Chandrayaan II

With success from Chandrayaan I ISRO, has announced their plans for Chandrayaan II targeted for 2011. In this mission Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) is joining with ISRO for development of Chandrayaan-2 Lander/Rover.

Chandrayaan-2 will consist of the spacecraft and a landing platform with the moon rover.

The rover would move on wheels on the lunar surface, pick up samples of soil or rocks, do a chemical analysis and send the data to the spacecraft orbiting above.

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