Nasa releases high-resolution images of the landing site of Vikram lander

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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. NASA released the photos, stating that the lander Vikram had made a hard landing on the lunar surface. But NASA has also said that the exact location of the lander Vikram has not been known yet.

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.

NASA’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.

On 7 September Vikram Lander attempted a soft landing on a small patch between Simplicius N and Manzinus C Craters before losing communication with ISRO.

Lander Vikram was designed to operate for 14 days (Prithvi until its equipment freeze on sunset and lunar night. That deadline has now arrived, and attempts to contact Vikram Has failed

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.