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Link: ISRO gears up to launch country's first unmanned mission to moon(...).
The unmanned lunar mission is aimed at high-resolution remote sensing of the moon, near infrared (NIR), low energy X-rays and high-energy X-ray regions.
The objective of the 'Chandrayaan' is to capture and understand the topographic mapping of the moon surface, chemical mapping, discovery of Helium, mineralogy, radiation environment apart from finding answer for the long pending question on the existence of water on the moon.
The spacecraft is cuboid in shape and 1.5 meters in span.
Chandrayaan-1 is slated to be launched by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-XL, from Sriharikota sometime in October-November. (ANI)
