British scientist is eagerly looking forward to the launch of India's first moon mission, Chandrayaan-I

A British scientist is thirstily looking forward to the launch of India's first moon mission, Chandrayaan-I, for which he contrived a camera that will photograph the moon's surface.Chandrayaan is planned to be launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on October 22.
"It is going to be great. It has been a lot of work but fingers crossed everything goes okay. I am busy trying to get my travel arrangements sorted out to attend the launch in India," said Manuel Grande, a prof at the Aberystwyth University in Wales, who worked on the project since helping to arise a model came for a European mission in 2003.
The camera on the current mission is of the size of a wassailer and which will be fixed onto a shelf of the unmanned Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
The camera will take image the elements which may match elements on Earth, said Grandem, who is the head of Solar System Physics at the university's Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
"The surface area of the moon is about the size of Africa. What nobody knows is whether the Earth and moon were formed together," .
He said that in the early solar system's history there may have been a monolithic hit between a planet like Mars and the Earth causing debris to collect as the moon. Gravity then pulled it into a sphere.
The camera can tell the moon is made of which components. Tests will compare these elements with those on Earth to see if they match.
"This will be new data. The moon is what the Earth used to be like. It has not changed. It is frozen in time," Grande said.