Peer reviews of data generated by Indian equipments and the findings are on,' he remarked.

The spacecraft carried 11 scientific instruments built in India, the US, Britain, Germany, Sweden and Bulgaria.

The Indian scientific payloads were terrain mapping camera, hyper spectral imager, lunar laser ranging instrument, high energy X-ray spectrometer and moon impact probe.

The overseas payloads were Chandrayaan-1 X-ray spectrometer, near infrared spectrometer, sub-keV atom reflecting analyser, miniature synthetic aperature radar, moon mineralogy mapper and radiation dose monitor.

Former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) K. Kasturirangan had categorically said that 'india's lunar mission is not lunatic mission' when controversy raged on the necessity of such a mission.

Now his views have turned prophetic.

Meanwhile, officials of the ISRO declined to comment on the development asking the Indian media to wait till Friday morning when Chairman Madhavan Nair is scheduled to address the media.