The storm had already claimed the lives of at least two people in China's Hainan and 16 people in the Philippines
At a time, when India hasn’t got enough paved roads, uninterrupted power supply, and clean drinking water in thousands of its villages, its strength of will to reach a little Indian cuboid on the surface of the Moon adds altogether a distinct dimension of its aptitude, apparently, more political than scientific.
Isro (Indian Space Research Organisation) is sending the Chandrayaan 1 on a two-year orbital mission to provide a detailed map of the mineral, chemical and topographical characteristics of the Moon’s surface. It is expected to reach lunar orbit in 15 days.
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh put it,
Landing an unmanned mission on Moon will allow
By launching the lunar orbiter,
That’s not all. The orbiter has a good aim at further identifying water ice-laden spots at Moon with a United States-provided low-power imaging radar, which is one of two
Chandrayaan 1 offers
Even though,
By firing a probe vehicle for lunar landing after tracking polar orbits for satellites, the Indian scientists are not unaware of the possibility of the Moon becoming a strategic defence site in the future.
Moon can soon be a launch pad for space vehicles for exploration, and commercial exploitation. And it is these remarkable futuristic
prospects that
The storm had already claimed the lives of at least two people in China's Hainan and 16 people in the Philippines
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