The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning 2nd moon mission Chandrayaan-2 by 2013. Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) is joining hands with ISRO for development of Chandrayaan-2 Lander.This is going to be a very great mission and a tougher one than Chandrayaan-1.
Chandrayaan-2 will consist of a spacecraft and a landing platform with the moon rover.
The rover would move on wheels on the lunar surface, pick up samples of soil or rocks, do a chemical analysis and send the data to the spacecraft orbiting above.
The rover will have an operating life-span of a month. It will run on solar power.The data will be further sent to Earth through the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter.
The Indian Government has also approved this mission in a meeting of the Union Cabinet held on 18 September 2008.
The team of Chandrayaan-2 is headed by Dr.Mylswamy Annadurai.