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 Current Issue
Vol. 96 No.
4
25 February 2009
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SPECIAL SECTION:
CHANDRAYAAN-1
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First Results from Chandrayaan-1 |
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486 |
Chandrayaan-1: India’s first planetary science mission to the
moon |
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J.
N. Goswami and M. Annadurai |
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492 |
Terrain Mapping Camera: A stereoscopic
high-resolution instrument on Chandrayaan-1 |
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A. S. Kiran Kumar, A. Roy Chowdhury,
A. Banerjee,
A. B. Dave, B. N. Sharma, K. J. Shah, K. R. Murali, S. R. Joshi,
S. S. Sarkar and V. D. Patel |
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496 |
Hyper Spectral Imager for lunar mineral mapping
in visible and near infrared band |
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A. S. Kiran
Kumar, A. Roy Chowdhury, A. Banerjee, A. B. Dave, B. N. Sharma,
K. J. Shah, K. R. Murali, S. Mehta, S. R. Joshi and S. S. Sarkar |
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500 |
The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) on Chandrayaan-1 |
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Carle M. Pieters, Joseph Boardman,
Bonnie Buratti,
Alok Chatterjee, Roger Clark,
Tom Glavich, Robert Green, James Head III, Peter Isaacson, Erick
Malaret, Thomas McCord, John Mustard, Noah Petro, Cassandra
Runyon, Matthew Staid, Jessica Sunshine, Lawrence Taylor,
Stefanie Tompkins, Padma Varanasi and Mary White |
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506 |
Near Infrared
Spectrometer SIR-2 on Chandrayaan-1 |
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Urs Mall,
Marek Banaszkiewicz, Kjell Brønstad, Susan McKenna-Lawlor,
Andreas Nathues, Finn Søraas, Esa Vilenius and Kjetil Ullaland |
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512 |
Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI): a tool for the study of
topography and gravitational field of the Moon |
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J. A. Kamalakar, A. S. Laxmi Prasad, K. V. S. Bhaskar, P.
Selvaraj, R. Venkateswaran, K. Kalyani, A. Goswami and V. L. N.
Sridhar Raja |
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517 |
The Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer |
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Manuel Grande, Brian J. Maddison, P. Sreekumar, Johani Huovelin,
Barry J. Kellett, Chris J. Howe,
Ian A. Crawford5,
D. R. Smith
and the C1XS Team |
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520 |
High Energy
X-ray Spectrometer on Chandrayaan-1 |
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P. Sreekumar, Y. B. Acharya, C. N. Umapathy, M. Ramakrishna
Sharma, Shanmugam, A. Tyagi, Kumar, S. Vadawale, M. Sudhakar, L.
Abraham, R. Kulkani, S. Purohit,
R. L. Premlatha, D. Banerjee, M. Bug and J. N. Goswami |
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526 |
Investigation
of the solar wind–Moon interaction onboard Chandrayaan-1 mission
with the SARA experiment |
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Stas Barabash,
Anil Bhardwaj, Martin Wieser, R. Sridharan, Thomas Kurian, Subha
Varier, E. Vijayakumar, Veena Abhirami, K. V. Raghavendra, S. V.
Mohankumar, M. B. Dhanya, Satheesh Thampi, Asamura Kazushi,
Herman Andersson, Futaana Yoshifumi, Mats Holmström, Rickard
Lundin, Johan Svensson, Stefan Karlsson, R. Daniele Piazza and
Peter Wurz |
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533 |
Mini-SAR: an
imaging radar experiment for the Chandrayaan-1 mission to the
Moon |
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Paul Spudis,
Stewart Nozette, Ben Bussey, Keith Raney, Helene Winters,
Christopher L. Lichtenberg, William Marinelli, Jason C. Crusan
and Michele M. Gates |
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540 |
The Moon Impact
Probe on Chandrayaan-1 |
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Y. Ashok Kumar and
MIP Project Team |
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544 |
Monitoring lunar radiation environment: RADOM
instrument on Chandrayaan-1 |
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T. Dachev, B. Tomov, P. Dimitrov and Y.
Matviichuk |
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
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553 |
Is malaria the cause for decline in the wild
population of the Indian White-backed vulture (Gyps
bengalensis)? |
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Ajay Poharkar, P.
Anuradha Reddy, Vilas A. Gadge, Sunil Kolte, Nitin Kurkure and
Sisinthy Shivaji |
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558 |
A high resolution daily gridded rainfall dataset
(1971–2005) for mesoscale meteorological studies |
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M. Rajeevan and Jyoti Bhate |
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562 |
Properties of cloud base height during southwest monsoon period
over a tropical station, Thiruvananthapuram |
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Hamza Varikoden, R. Harikumar, V. Sasi Kumar S. Murali Das, S.
Sampath and G. Mohan Kumar |
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569 |
Land evaluation by integrating remote sensing and
GIS for cropping system analysis in a watershed |
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D. Martin and S. K. Saha |
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575 |
Comparison of
floristic diversity of evergreen forest inferred from different
sampling approaches in the Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu, India |
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S. Jayakumar, A.
Ramachandran and Joon Heo |
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581 |
Acacia
nilotica-based
traditional agroforestry system: effect on paddy crop and
management |
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S. S. Bargali,
Kiran Bargali, Lalji Singh, Lekha Ghosh and M. L. Lakhera |
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588 |
Srisailam
sub-basin, an uranium province of unconformity-related deposits
in Andhra Pradesh – case study of Chitrial uranium exploration,
Nalgonda District |
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M. B. Verma, P. B.
Maithani, A. Chaki, P. Nageshwar Rao and Prakher Kumar |
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COVER.
Indian White-backed vulture. See page 553.
The editor thanks J. N. Goswami, PRL, Ahmedabad for agreeing to
be guest editor for the special section.
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