Back Moon Impact Probe Galician MIP HE MIP szonda Hungarian Moon Impact Probe ID 달 충돌형 탐사선 Korean நிலவு மோதல் சலாகை Tamil Moon Impact Probe Ukrainian
The Moon Impact Probe (MIP) developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India's national space agency, was a lunar probe that was released by ISRO's Chandrayaan-1 lunar remote sensing orbiter which in turn was launched, on 22 October 2008, aboard a modified version of ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. It discovered the presence of water on the Moon.[1][2]
The Moon Impact Probe separated from the Moon-orbiting Chandrayaan-1 on 14 November 2008, 14:36:54 UTC and after nearly 25 minutes hard landed as planned, near the rim of Shackleton Crater.[3][4][5] With this mission, ISRO became the fifth national space agency to reach the lunar surface. Other nations whose national space agencies to have done so prior were the former Soviet Union in 1959,[6] the United States in 1962,[7][8] Japan in 1993,[9] and ESA member states in 2006.[10][11][12]
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