Bulan dulunya adalah bagian dari bumi yang tertabrak oleh komet lalu
terpisah dari bumi.
--- In zamanku@yahoogroups.com, "gkrantau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> CONGRATULATIONS to India and her scientists. Mudah2an ini sbg pemicu
> bangs2 lain untuk turut berlomba memajukan ilmu pengetahuan. Jangan
> hanya bingung dg klaim bhw di permukaan bulan masih tersisa bekas bulan
> dibelah menjadi dua!
>
> Gabriela Rantau
>
> --- In zamanku@yahoogroups.com, "Sunny" wrote:
> >
> > http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=182544
> >
> > November 16, 2008
> >
> >
> >
> > India celebrates planting its flag on moon
> >
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> >
> > NEW DELHI (AP) - India rejoiced Saturday at joining an elite club by
> planting its flag on the moon as the country's space agency released the
> first pictures of the cratered surface taken by its maiden lunar
> mission.
> >
> >
> > A probe sent late Friday from the orbiting mother spacecraft took
> pictures and gathered other data India needs for a future moon landing
> as it plummeted to a crash-landing at the moon's south pole, said Indian
> Space Research Organization spokesman B.R. Guruprasad.
> >
> > The box-shaped probe was painted with India's saffron, white and green
> flag, sparking celebrations in the country that is striving to become a
> world power.
> >
> > "The tricolor has landed," the Hindustan Times said in a banner
> headline, while The Asian Age proclaimed "India is big cheese."
> >
> > As India's economy has boomed in recent years, it has sought to
> convert its newfound wealth - built on the nation's high-tech sector -
> into political and military clout. The moon mission comes just months
> after it finalized a deal with the United States that recognizes India
> as a nuclear power, and leaders hope the mission will further enhance
> its prestige.
> >
> > "This momentous achievement shall be etched in the history of India as
> a grateful tribute to our scientific community for their resolute
> efforts to take India to a global leadership position," said Sonia
> Gandhi, head of the ruling Congress party.
> >
> > To date only the U.S., Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and
> China - and now India - have sent missions to the moon.
> >
> > But while the celebrations conjured up images akin to that of the U.S.
> flag unfurled on the moon by Apollo astronauts, India's flag is most
> likely scattered over a wide swath of the moon's Shackleton crater after
> the probe slammed into the surface at more than 3,100 miles (5,000
> kilometers) per hour.
> >
> > The violent landing was planned and Indian scientists hope to study
> the images and data sent back by the probe during its 25-minute descent
> to prepare for a future "soft" landing, Guruprasad told The Associated
> Press. It carried a video imaging system, a radar altimeter and a mass
> spectrometer.
> >
> > The video imaging system took pictures of the moon's surface, while
> the altimeter measured the rate of descent of the probe and the mass
> spectrometer studied the extremely thin lunar atmosphere.
> >
> > Guruprasad said the pictures that were released were raw images and
> that scientists had not yet analyzed the information sent by the probe.
> >
> > It was the first stage of a two-year mission aimed at measuring not
> only the surface of the moon, but what lies beneath. The probe was one
> of 11 payloads on the spacecraft Chandrayaan-1. Chandrayaan means "moon
> craft" in ancient Sanskrit.
> >
> > India plans to follow the mission by landing a rover on the moon in
> 2011 and, eventually, with a manned space program, though this has not
> been authorized yet
> >
>