Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has declared the Chandrayan has sent more than 40,000 images to the base station in the last two months. This simply means that Chandrayan is sending nearly 535 images daily to its base station. The Indian Moon mission was launched on October 22 last year.

"In last two months Chandrayan-1 has sent more than 40,000 images to the base station," said an elated Chairman G Madhavan Nair.

At present, the members of ISRO are analyzing these images and it is believed that these will certainly prove very useful to the scientific community.

The ISRO chief said that none of the other lunar missions of the past has been able to provide inclusive data in the form of images so detailed.

"Though several moon missions were there in the past, no mission had provided pictures and data about the entire surface of the moon. However, Chandrayan-1 is the first mission which will give data on the entire surface," Mr. Nair said.

Besides this, Chandrayaan has been able to capture images of the moon with resolutions of up to five meters. Even the top state in the field of space science research, US makes available the photographs of the moon surface at a resolution of around 100 metres.

The ISRO chief also expects the country to execute its first manned moon mission by 2015.

He also made it clear that by the end of the 11th plan period, the capacity of the transponder will be raised to 500.

Currently, ISRO is operating 211 transponders.