December 27, 2008

Chandrayaan finds iron-bearing minerals on moon

An experiment onboard India's maiden moon mission -- Chandrayaan-I -- has found iron-bearing minerals in abundance on the lunar surface, initial reports suggest.

Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has beamed back images of the Orientale Basin on the western limb of the moon.

Source: The Hindu

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