Chadrayaan 2: where Vikram did the landing, now NASA's arbiter released pictures

Chandrayaan 2 NASA has released fresh pictures of the lunar surface taken by its arbiter, showing the part of the moon where Vikram attempted to land.

 Washington, Pret. Chandrayaan 2, NASA on Friday released high-resolution photographs taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance Camera (LROC). NASA has released pictures of the part of the moon where the lander Vikram of India's Chandrayaan mission attempted to land. While releasing the photos, NASA has said that Lander Vikram had made a hard landing on the lunar surface, but NASA has also said that the exact location of Lander Vikram has not been ascertained yet.

Vikram Lander was supposed to touch the lunar surface on 7 September, but lost contact with ISRO 2.1 kilometers before the lunar surface. There have been attempts to contact Vikram Lander since then. The event was India's first attempt at a soft landing on the moon.

Will be again on October 14

NASA's  Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission deputy project scientist John Keller said, "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will once again pass through the moon's landing site on October 14, when sunlight conditions will be more favorable." At the same time, NASA said that the area of ​​the moon was very dark when these pictures were taken, so it is possible that Vikram Lander had been hiding in that darkness. When the LRO passes through that landing site once again in October, we will try to locate the lander once again and take pictures of it. '

ASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) has taken these pictures while passing through the lunar surface.

The photos were taken from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera QuickMap Fly, which took pictures of the 150-km stretch of the target landing site of Vikram Lander.

Looking for lander Vikram

ISRO had sent a lander named Vikram with Chandrayaan-2, even before the moon touched the earth, it lost contact with ISRO. It was to descend one near the south pole of the moon, but it could not succeed in it. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took off this week from where the lander Vikram was likely to be. But Vikram could not see clearly due to the lack of sunlight and long shadow. After that NASA has taken pictures there.

 On 7 September Vikram Lander attempted a soft landing on a small patch between Simplius N and Manzinus C Craters before losing communication with ISRO. Lander Vikram was designed to operate for 14 days (Prithvi until its devices freeze on sunset and lunar night. That deadline has now arrived, and attempts to contact Vikram Has failed so far

Orbiter of Chandrayaan-2 doing the right thing

Earlier on Thursday, ISRO chief K.K. Sivan said that Chandrayaan-2's arbiter is working properly. All payloads placed on it have been found to be intact in the investigation. It is expected to yield many new and important results in the coming days. Earlier, Sivan had said that all the operations of Chandrayaan-2 till the landing were done properly due to the extra fuel left in the orbiter. With the help of this fuel, the orbiter can continue to work for seven years. The period of work of the orbiter was set to one year at the time of launching.

Chandrayaan-2 journey

Chandrayaan-2 was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh on 22 July. After three weeks of orbiting the Earth, it turned to the moon. On 20 August, Yan entered the moon's orbit. On September 2, the Lander-Rover was separated from the vehicle's orbiter after walking into different orbits of the moon. The orbiter has since been carrying out experiments, orbiting in an orbit located about 100 km above the moon. At the same time, contact with the lander was lost in the last moments of landing on the lunar night of September 6-7. Rover Pragya was also inside the lander, which was to come out a few hours after landing.