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M3

Moon Mineralogy Mapper

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.

Mission Statistics

Launch Date

Oct. 22, 2008

Type

Instrument

Target

Moon

Status

Past

About the mission

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.

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› Chandrayaan-1 Information on National Space Science Data Center

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