Earlier, three other payloads of Chandrayaan-1 -- the Terrain Mapping Camera, the Radiation Dose Monitor and the Moon Impact Probe -- were successfully turned on. The MIP, bearing the tricolour, was released from the spacecraft on November 14 and crash landed on the lunar surface 25 minutes later.
The TMC took photographs of the Earth and moon when the spacecraft was on its way to the moon. After reaching the lunar orbit, the TMC has been taking breathtaking pictures of the lunar panorama.
RADOM was switched on in the Earth orbit itself.
The pictures and other scientific data sent by Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft from the lunar orbit have been received by antennas of the Indian Deep Space Network at Byalalu. The spacecraft operations are being carried out from the Satellite Control Centre of ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network at Bangalore.
Image: An image of the moon's surface taken from lunar orbit by Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft's Terrain Mapping Camera on November 13. Taken over the equatorial region of the moon, the picture shows the uneven surface of the moon which has numerous craters. On the lower left, part of the Torricelli crater is seen.
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