Indian tricolour will mark its presence on the moon tonight around 8.30pm IST after having flown 3,86,000km from the earth as a moon probe with the tri-colour painted on it will detach from Chandrayaan-1 and descend onto the earth's natural satellite.
The timing of this proud moment has been specially designed to coincide with Children's Day.
Miniature Indian flags are painted on four sides of MIP. "It will signify the entry of India on Moon. During its 20-minute descent to the moon's surface, MIP will take pictures and transmit these back to the ground.
MIP is one of the 11 scientific instruments (payloads) onboard Chandrayaan-1, India's first unmanned spacecraft mission to Moon launched on October 22.
The spacecraft yesterday reached its final orbital home, about 100 kms over the moon surface after ISRO scientists successfully carried out the last critical orbit lowering operation.
Developed by ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of Thiruvananthapuram, the primary objective of MIP is to demonstrate the technologies required for landing a probe at the desired location on the moon.
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