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Chandrayaan-1 sends first pictures of earth
Bangalore,
Nov
1:
Signs
of
India's
moon
mission,
Chandrayaan-1
being
on
track.
Chandrayaan-1
beams
back
its
first
pictures
of
earth
that
were
taken
on
Wednesday,
Oct
29
by
the
Terrain
Mapping
Camera
(TMC)
on
board
the
spacecraft
after
it
was
switched
on.
The
first
image
taken
by
the
TMC
at
8
am
on
Wednesday,
Oct
29
from
a
height
of
9,000
km
shows
the
northern
coast
of
Australia.
The
second
image,
taken
at
12.30
pm
from
a
height
of
70,000
km,
shows
Australia's
southern
coast.
Indian
Space
Research
Organisation
(ISRO)
Chairman
G
Madhavan
Nair
met
Prime
Minister
Dr
Manmohan
Singh
in
New
Delhi
on
Friday,
Oct
31
afternoon
and
briefed
him
on
the
lunar
mission
launched
on
Wednesday,
Oct
22.
PM
was
shown
the
first
pictures
on
Friday,
Oct
31
sent
by
India's
maiden
unmanned
scientific
mission
to
Moon.
Nair
showed
Singh
the
first
pictures
taken
by
the
TMC,
one
of
the
11
payloads
on
Chandrayaan,
depicting
the
northern
and
southern
coasts
of
Australia.
During
the
meeting,
Singh
expressed
happiness
on
the
significant
milestone
in
space
programme
and
congratulated
Nair
and
his
team
for
the
successful
mission.
The TMC was successfully operated on Wednesday, Oct 29 through a series of commands issued from the Spacecraft Control Centre of ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network at Bangalore. The Indian Deep Space Network at Byalalu on the outskirts of Bangalore received the first images which were processed by Indian Space Science Data Centre. "The images confirm excellent performance of the camera," a top ISRO official said.
Nair briefed Singh about the launch sequence and subsequent maneuvering of the spacecraft to reach the final lunar orbit. The health of the spacecraft is good and all operations so far have been implemented as planned, he said.
Meanwhile, Former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, who holds the Moon mission close to his heart, on Saturday, Nov 1, expressed happiness over the first photographs of Earth taken by the terrain mapping camera on board Chandrayaan-1.
Kalam, who has been closely associated with the country's space programmes, said that he had seen the first pictures of the Earth, shown to him by ISRO chief Madhavan Nair. "They are good pictures. They are high-resolution pictures," he said on the sidelines of a function organised to mark the launch of an emergency response service in Karnataka.
The photographs, he said, "are indicative of what things hold for us in future." On the moon mission, he said, "every Indian should be proud about the success of the mission." The terrain mapping camera on board India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan took black and white shots of the Earth from deep space.
The camera was operated through a series of commands from the spacecraft control center of ISRO's telemetry tracking and command network in Bangalore. The first imagery was taken from an altitude of 9,000 km above the Earth and second from 70,000 km.
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