November 7, 2009 8:32 PM

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Chandrayaan-II moon mission to be completed by 2012-13

Chandrayaan-II moon mission, which will help in analysis of mineral composition and undertake terrain mapping of the moon, will be completed by 2012-13.Project Director of Chandrayaan Dr M Annadurai said this in Bangalore today. He said as opposed to Chandrayaan-1 which was a moon orbiter, in Chandrayaan-2, the two moon rovers will actually land on the moon surface. Chadrayaan-II will consist of the spacecraft and a landing platform with two moon rovers, one from India and one from Russia, which will land on the moon and move on wheels on the lunar surface, pick up samples of soil or rocks, do a chemical analysis and send the data to the spacecraft orbiting above. Dr. Annadurai was inaugurating the sixth National Student Conference at University Visveswaraya College of Engineering.

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