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Which of the following instruments were used in chandrayaan?
A) TMC
B) LLRI
C) HEX
D) All of the above

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Hint: Chandrayaan was launched by the Indian Space Research organization in October 2008 and operated until august 2009.this mission included a lunar orbiter and an impactor. India launched the spacecraft using PSLV-XL rocket.

Complete step by step answer:
Chandrayaan had the largest number of instruments on board that is 11. In which five were from India and six from other countries. The five Indian instruments are the Terrain Mapping Camera(TMC), the Hyper-spectral Imager, the Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument(LLRI), the High Energy X-ray(HEX) spectrometer and the Moon Impact Probe. While the TMC took black and white pictures of the moon surface, LLRI was a laser radar that provided information of the height of the hills and the mountains, or depth of the crater and valley, HEX spectrometer explored the moon’s polar regions for possible water-ice and hyper. HyperSpectral Imager took color pictures by recording the visible and infrared light reflected from the moon.
So the answer is all of the above

Note: Do not confuse between Chandrayaan and Chandrayaan-2. The other six instruments are X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, sub keV atom reflecting Analyser, Moon Mineralogy Mapper,SIR-2, Mini-SAR and RANDOM-7.