Chandrayaan-I sending signals to Earth

 

                             The Aim of the launched Chandrayaan-I is to harvest helium3,a key fuel for nuclear fusion. Though Fusion is not possible now, Scientist say it one day will happen because till date supply is the big crux as our earth is believed to have only a limited amount of helium 3. The moon is thought to contain atleast 4 million tonnes. This mission is also looking for the water ice in moon. Chandrayaan-I carried 5 inbuilt instruments and 6 abroad instruments as a total of 11. These will help the scientists to have a 3-D atlas of sport minerals such as Thorium,Aluminium Slicon etc. Many of these instruments will send images of moon from which even the heights of the hills,depth of craters there can be calculated.

                       ”Its is complex and challenging task but the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) can send an Indian astronaut to space before 2015″ said Chairman G.Madhavan Nair. In a questionary he was asked about wheather he will support the cooperation of other countries, he replied” We do not have any proposal for cooperation but we are not Opposed to it”. Following the Chandrayaan-I, Chandrayaan-II will be planned to launch on or before 2013. This Chandrayaan-II would drop the rover on the moon,which is promished to given to India by Russia.

The LTTE Attack On Merchant Navy

 

 

                  The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) carried out a suicide attack on two merchant navy ships early on Wednesday on the coast of Kankesanthurai harbour in northern Sri Lanka, damaging one ship and disrupting the supply line lines of other near jaffna. The ship which wasloaded with food and building material were on their way to Jaffna was aslo attacked. It was reported that they made a suicide attempt to destroy the Merchant Navy on the way. But the navy personnel aboard the two ships attacked the three approaching boats with machine guns. The pro-LTTE website TamilNet said: “Sri Lanka Army soldiers fired rockets from their coastal positions in Vadamaraadchi”. Fishermen too reported the attack as leathal. Aftre the attack it was reported that only one ship sustained minor damages and others are heavily damaged. “As far LTTE is concerned
on one hand, they claim to be fighting for their community and on the other, they are hampering welfare efforts,” Dassanayake said.