Comments on: Chandrayaan-1 Closer to the Moon; Snaps First Lunar Shot

By: Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:48:36 +0000

Few Images of moon have been released by ISRO.
http://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c11/photos/moon_images.htm

Cheers,
Rahul

By: Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:36:49 +0000

Thanks for the lovely information Nancy. I am very eagerly waiting for the release of photographs of Moon by ISRO. And now be a regular visitor of this Blog.

Regards,
Rahul

By: ian

ian — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:14:53 +0000

cool india is awesom. Its good to see indians doing great. i guess now the world has started taking india seriously. I just love almost everything about india. Love to go there once… cheers guys

By: imu

imu — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:27:00 +0000

hi, indians r doing realy great….as per my knowledge they have only released photos of earth…… and moon photos are to be released chandrayaan entered lunar orbit recently

By: fsm

fsm — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:38:35 +0000

Thats no moon!

By: Ian O'Neill

Ian O'Neill — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:02:29 +0000

Oh no! I was totally duped into thinking the original press release was a lunar pic by Chandrayaan! They should have made it obvious that it was a stock pic… Good spot Nancy

Cheers, Ian

By: Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:45:19 +0000

However, Phil is right. In checking further, although the images have been taken by Chandrayaan-1, they haven't yet been yet been made available to the press and the public. The source for the article included a moon photo, but it turned out to be a stock photo of the moon, not an actual Chandrayaan image. I apologize for the error. I've replaced the moon image with an artists impression of Chandrayaan at the moon, and we will post the actual images from the spacecraft as soon as they are available.
Nancy

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:39:18 +0000

If you take a look at the flight path of the probe you'll realize, that it's "forward"-direction ("speed vector") is quite different to the line connecting earth and moon (the "look at the moon"-direction from an earthbound observer). Therefore, the images of the Chandrayaan probe need not show the same phase as seen by an earthbound observer. Unless the moon is hidden in the Earth's shadow ("moon eclipse"), there is always a "full moon" and "no moon" perspective.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:13:07 +0000

I'm very surprised by the photo of the Moon publisehd with the article. Since October 22, day of the Chandrayaan launch, the Moon never showed us this phase. The next similar phase will be visible around November 10 or 11… So what ? It seems to me that this photo was not taken by the spacecraft but from Earth, before the launch. If Chandrayaan took a first photo of the Moon, it may not be this one !