Friday, October 23, 2009

Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3)

The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) is one of two instruments that NASA contributed to India's first mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1, launched October 22, 2008. The instrument is led by principal investigator Carle Pieters of Brown University, and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) on Chandrayaan-1 had detected water on the moon.

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