India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon

yaksha writes to tell us that the Indian Space probe, Chandrayaan, has become only the fourth nation to land a probe on the Moon. The 35-kg Moon Impact Probe touched down in what officials are describing as a "perfect operation." "Developed by ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of Thiruvananthapuram, the primary objective of MIP is to demonstrate the technologies required for landing a probe at the desired location on the moon. The probe will help qualify some of the technologies related to future soft landing missions. This apart, scientific exploration of the moon at close distance is also intended using MIP."

Landing?

[ScentCone]

I don't know if "landing" is the right term for it, exactly. That doesn't seem fair to people and devices that actually... don't splat when they "land."

Ahh.. American Relevance

[bigattichouse]

ahh.. American Relevance in the new century fades a little more. Just hope we don't go kicking and screaming.
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Can we finally...

[RelaxedTension]

Get some images from another country of the original American landing site? They have the probe in orbit, as does China. It would finally put to rest (or verify) the conspiracy theories.

more people in poverty than population of USA

[Anonymous Coward]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India

Why are they doing this again?
I get trying to inspire people but does this really help the people of India in any way?

Information vacuum

[Jivecat]

It might be nice if they had bothered with an official web site that contained any decent, up-to-date information about the mission. The "News" section is basically just the home page with nothing timely, and the latest entry on the "Press Releases" page is four days old.

Re:Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of Thiruvananthapu

[Anonymous Coward]

The place used to be spelled "Trivandrum" when written in English, since no one can pronounce the other name- Not even Indians from outside Kerala.
Malayalam is like many other Indo-European languages, you can join a couple of words together to get a new word. Thiru - means holy, Anantha - is infinite, is also a name in Indian myth, puram- place. So in all the name means "Holy Anantha's land" - it was so called because there is a big temple there .Britishers called it Trivandrum when it was capital of the Travancore (Thiruvithamcoor) dynasty .Now it is the capital of Kerala state and they decided to "keralize" the name again.