Jan 16 2009
From The Space Library
NASA announced that its mini-SAR (synthetic aperture radar) instrument, flying aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, had passed initial in-flight tests and had transmitted its first data. Chandrayaan 1 had launched on 21 October 2008 and had begun its lunar orbit on 8 November 2008. The images that the lightweight radar instrument had captured on 17 November 2008 showed the floors of permanently shadowed polar craters that are not visible from Earth—part of the Haworth crater at the Moon’s south pole and the western rim of the Seares crater at its north pole.
NASA, “NASA Radar Provides First Look Inside Moon’s Shadowed Craters,” news release 09-010, 16 January 2009, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jan/HQ_09-010_Moon_radar_pictures.html (accessed 14 January 2011).
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