Chandrayaan-NASA Venture Shows Dark Side of the Moon January 16, 2009
Posted by neoavatara in Science, World Politics.Tags: Chandrayaan, Dark Side of the Moon, NASA
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Images on never before seen craters on dark side of the moon.
India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, carrying NASA’s Mini-SAR instrument (a radar system) has taken never before seen pictures of craters on the dark side of the moon. Why is this important? These craters were hypothesized to hold ice and water, that could potentially be used on future space missions.
And for those nihilists among us…
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