Chandrayaan-1 Orbits the Moon!

India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has achieved lunar orbit today with a mission design to gather extensive data on the lunar surface including mineral mapping and a 3-D topography map according to the mission profile.

The Chandrayaan-1 is the third probe now in orbit around the moon with the Japanese and Chinese probes gathering lunar science data.

Future lunar missions will be sent to the moon by an array of nations to gather data for future human landing sites [vid] and outpost missions.