Dhanbad, Aug. 27: Two students of Indian School of Mines have contributed significantly to the post-mortems of India’s first lunar scientific mission, Chandrayaan I.

While final year M.Sc. (Tech) student Deepak Singh prepared a mineralogical map of the lunar surface indicating presence of three minerals, classmate Tapas Kumar Nandy developed a software to analyse the motion of sensors in the spacecraft to help the landing of future missions.

Based on data collected by the spacecraft, the duo worked for a month at the Ahmedabad-based ISRO Space Application Centre in June. Their findings would be presented at the upcoming 13th Young Astronomers’ Meet in Ahmedabad on September 3-5.

Associate professor of ISM’s department of applied geophysics Vinay Kumar Srivastava said the findings would be published in ISM News Bulletin as well.