India Puts Probe on Moon
By VOA News
14 November 2008
India's space agency says its first lunar probe has landed on the moon.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) says the small unmanned Moon Impact Probe crash landed on the lunar surface late Friday as planned.
The craft will take pictures to support the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft's two-year mission of mapping the moon's surface and what lies beneath it.
The probe's landing came two days after the Chandrayaan-1 went into lunar orbit and about two weeks after it was launched from Sriharikota, near the southeastern city of Chennai.
India is following in the path of its Asian rivals, Japan and China, who have already had spacecraft in orbit around the moon.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP.
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