Chandrayaan-3 lander is in the centre of the picture. Its darkish shadow is seen towards the vibrant halo surrounding the car. The picture is 1,738 meters broad; body No. M1447750764LR.
| Photo Credit: LROC
National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has noticed the Chandrayaan-3 Lander Module landing site on the floor of the Moon, and captured its image.
NASA acknowledged: “The ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) Chandrayaan-3 touched down on the Moon on August 23, 2023. The Chandrayaan-3 landing site is positioned about 600 kilometres from the South Pole of the Moon. The LROC (brief for LRO Camera) acquired an indirect view (42-degree slew angle) of the lander 4 days later. The vibrant halo round the car resulted from the rocket plume interacting with the fine-grained regolith (soil).
The US Space company added that the LRO is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for the Science Mission Directorate at the company’s headquarters in Washington. Arizona State University manages and operates LROC.
Launched on June 18, 2009, LRO has collected a treasure trove of information with its seven highly effective devices, making a useful contribution to our data about the Moon.
Just a few days in the past, the LRO captured a picture of a brand new crater on the floor of the Moon that’s seemingly the influence site of Luna 25 mission of Russia.
The Luna 25 suffered a glitch attributable to which it crashed on the lunar floor on August 19.
ISRO has put the lander Vikram and rover Pragyan, which has a mission life of 1 lunar day (14 earth days), into sleep mode.
The ISRO mentioned that Vikram would go to sleep subsequent to Pragyan as soon as the solar energy was depleted and the battery was drained.
The ISRO is hoping that it’s going to get up each Vikram and Pragyan on September 22.
Prior to placing it to sleep, the lander efficiently underwent a hop experiment and on command, it fired the engines, elevated itself by about 40 cm as anticipated and landed safely at a distance of 30–40 cm away.
