Acknowledgment

  1. The users will make available to the scientific community the salient results of the data analysis through publication in appropriate journals.
  2. When publishing a paper using the Chandrayaan-3 data, please
    1. mention on “Chandrayaan-3” in abstract and
    2. include the following statement in acknowledgement based on the payload data used-
      • ILSA: We acknowledge the instrument development team - ILSA, Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS), ISRO, Bengaluru. In addition, we acknowledge Chandrayaan-3 Project, Mission, Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) for data handling, Storage and Archival.
      • ChaSTE: We acknowledge the use of data from the Chandrayaan-3, of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), available at the PRADAN Portal, Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC). ChaSTE Payload is jointly developed by Space Physics Laboratory (SPL), Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram and Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad.
      • RAMBHA-LP: We acknowledge the use of data or results from RAMBHA-LP on Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-3 lander, which is the first ever lunar landing mission close to the South pole. The above data is archived at the Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC). The lead entity for the development of the RAMBHA-LP payload is Space Physics Laboratory (SPL), Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram.
      • APXS: We acknowledge the use of data from the APXS instrument on the rover of the Chandrayaan-3 mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), archived at the Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC). APXS experiment is designed and developed by the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad with support from Space Applications Center (SAC), Ahmedabad and U.R Rao Satellite Center (URSC), Bangalore.
      • LIBS: We acknowledge the use of the data recorded by the LIBS instrument aboard the ISRO Pragyan rover, Chandrayaan-3 mission, archived at the Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC). The LIBS instrument is developed at the Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS), Bengaluru with support from U.R.Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), Bengaluru.
      • LI/RI: We acknowledge the instrument development team - LI/RI, Space Applications Centre (SAC), ISRO. In addition, we acknowledge Chandrayaan-3 Project, Mission, Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) for data handling, Storage and Archival.
      • NavCam: We acknowledge the instrument development team - NavCam, Space Applications Centre (SAC) and Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS), ISRO. In addition, we acknowledge Chandrayaan-3 Project, Mission, Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) for data handling, Storage and Archival.
  3. If you are using the results of Chandrayaan-3 which are already published and carrying out further interpretation or modeling, please include the following statement in acknowledgement – "The research is based partially / to a significant extent (whichever is applicable) on the results obtained from the Chandrayaan-3, third lunar mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), archived at the Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC)".
  4. ISRO reserves the right to use the published results in its reports and publications with due reference to the publication. If the reports or publications are copyrighted, ISRO will have a royalty-free right under the copyright to reproduce, distribute and use the copyrighted works for their purposes.
  5. Any print of the data/ data products supplied by ISRO should carry the mark "© reserved ISRO" mark in legible letters.