Moon Mineralogy Mapper
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Chandrayann-1 Spacecraft
An artist's concept of the Indian Chandrayann-1 Spacecraft, which carried NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument designed to create the first mineralogy map of the moon. Image credit: ISRO
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Moon Mapper Looks Homeward
NASA's Moon Minerology Mapper, a guest instrument onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 mission to the moon, looks homeward. Australia is visible in the lower center of the image.
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Water Detected at High Latitudes
This image of the moon is from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 mission. It is a three-color composite of reflected near-infrared radiation from the sun.
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NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper
Different wavelengths of light provide new information about the Orientale Basin region of the moon in a composite image taken by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, a guest instrument aboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
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Building the Moon Mineralogy Mapper
The Moon Mineralogy Mapper imaging spectrometer, an instrument on India’s Chandrayaan-1, during development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Mission Summary
The Moon Mineralogy Mapper, or M3, instrument flew aboard Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the moon, and provided the first mineralogical map of the lunar suface.
In 2009, the Moon Mineralogy Mapper made one of its biggest discoveries when it found water molecules in the polar regions of the moon.
