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Chandrayaan-1

Chandrayaan-1 was an Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) mission designed to orbit the Moon over a two-year period with the objectives of upgrading and testing India's technological capabilities in space and returning scientific information on the lunar surface.
  On August 31, 2009, the ISRO announced that the Chandrayaan-1 mission has been officially terminated after contact was lost abruptly at 20:00 UT on 28 August, 2009.


Artist's impression of Chandrayaan-1 at the Moon
Image Credit: ISRO

Instruments
  • TMC – Thermal Mapping Camera
  • HySI – Hyper Spectral Imager
  • LLRI – Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument
  • HEX – High Energy AJ/Gamma X-ray Spectrometer
  • MIP – Moon Impact Probe
  • C1XS – X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer
  • SARA – Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyser
  • M3 – Moon Mineralogy Mapper
  • SIR-2 – Near Infrared Spectrometer
  • miniSAR – Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • RADOM-7 – Radiation Dose Monitor Experiment

Chandrayaan-1 carried five Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) instruments and six instruments from other space agencies including the European Space Agency, Bulgarian Aerospace Agency, and NASA. The PDS Imaging Node archives the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) science data. ISRO is the lead for archiving and can provide information about responsibilities for other instruments at:
http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan/htmls/home.htm.
  The M3 is an imaging spectrometer with high spectral and spatial resolution, reliably uniform results, and a high signal-to-noise ratio. The instrument detects electromagnetic radiation covering visible and near-infrared spectral regions. The M3 data sets are produced by the M3 Team at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena.

Mission Documents
  • M3 Project Data Management and Archive Plan
  • Mission Description
  • Spacecraft Description

Instrument and Data Archive Information
  • M3 Data Volumes
    • Calibrated Spectral Image Cubes (Level 1B) Data Set Description
    • Instrument Description
    • Coverage of the lunar surface by optical period
    • Personnel
    • References
    • M3 Data Product SIS (covers product levels 0, 1B & 2)
    • M3 Archive Volume SIS