18 November 2008

Chandrayaan's First Video

Here is the first video of the Chandrayaan Mission. This video was taken by Moon Impact Probe (MIP), a payload of Chandrayaan - I which had a crash landing on the Moon on November 14th, 2008. MIP took images of the moon as it was descending down to the surface. The 15,000 frames generated by MIP during its 25 mins journey to the moon's surface was decrypted and the complete video is yet to be created. Here is a 2 min part of the video.


2 comments:

Kavin said...

am proud of ISRO!!! u said it took video while its descending... but while descending how could u see the video of the surface of the moon???

Inchara Prakash said...

It was descending towards the surface of the moon. A camera was fixed such that it would take a high resolution video of the moon as it descends until it finally crashes onto the surface. Its a 25 min video whereas this one that i posted is only a part of it...