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Chandrayaan captures tunnels below moon's surface
The Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) on Chandrayaan has identified tunnels below the moon’s surface which could be possible areas for human habitation, says a top scientist.

• M3 on Chandrayaan finds deepest crater on moon
  
  Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) detected the enormous crater -- the South Pole-Aitken basin -- that was created when an asteroid smacked into moon's southern hemisphere shortly after the formation of earth's only natural satellite.

• Discovery of ice deposits on Moon path-breaking: Nair
  
  NASA and ISRO have for the first time confirmed the availability of water on moon. This is a path-breaking finding, says former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair.

• Chandrayaan-I detects ice deposits on moon
  
  NASA's Mini-SAR instrument on Chandrayaan – I, found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 2 to 15 km in diameter.

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• India to initiate moon mission Chandrayaan-II: President
  
  Government is ready to initiate activities for Chandrayaan-II, which will help in analysis of mineral composition and undertake terrain mapping of the moon.

• NASA, ESA keen to be part of Chandrayaan-II mission
  
  India had hosted six foreign instruments in its maiden moon odyssey Chandrayaan-I -- three from ESA, two from NASA and one from Bulgaria.

• Kalam urges ISRO to reduce cost of payload
  
  One of the main challenges before the space agency was to bring down considerably the cost of the payload from its existing price, says former Indian President A P J Abdul Kalam.