Chandrayaan 2: the truth of this picture of ISRO’s Vikram Lander

A photo of the lunar surface, taken from space, is being shared on social media as a ‘Vikram Lander’ sent by ISRO.

With this viral picture, people are claiming that ‘the orbiter orbiting the moon has taken this thermal picture of Vikram Lander which ISRO has released’.

After a 47-day-long journey, on Saturday, September 7, 2019, when Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander was just 2.1 km from the moon’s surface, he lost contact with the Bangalore Center of the Indian Space Research Organization.

On Tuesday morning, ISRO tweeted from its official Twitter handle to inform that “Chandrayaan-2 orbiter has found the location of Vikram Lander, but his contact has not been established yet. To make contact with Vikram Lander All possible efforts are underway. “

Earlier on Sunday, ISRO chief K Sivan told the news agency PTI that But the picture that is being shared on social media by telling Vikram Lander is misleading.

ISRO has not released any pictures of Vikram Lander through its official website, official Facebook and Twitter account or through any press release.

ISRO has found pictures of Vikram Lander on the surface of the moon. The orbiter has taken a thermal image of Vikram Lander which appears to be hard on the moon of Vikram Lander. Landing has occurred.

But the picture that is being shared on social media by telling Vikram Lander is misleading.

ISRO has not released any pictures of Vikram Lander through its official website, official Facebook and Twitter account or through any press release.

The truth of the viral photo
The reverse image search shows that the image is shared as ‘thermal image of Vikram Lander taken by Indian orbiter’ is actually a picture of the mission ‘Apollo-16’ of the US space agency NASA.

On 18 June 2019, NASA published a feature story on its official website in which this picture was used.

According to this feature story, it is a picture of the Apollo-16 landing site.

NASA’s ‘Apollo-16’ lunar landing mission was launched on 16 April 1972 at 12 54 minutes from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.

It was the vehicle of a NASA crew to land on the moon. The crew of three men was led by Commander John W. Young.

During NASA’s Apollo-16 mission, the three astronauts spent a total of 71 hours, two minutes on the moon.

During this time, astronauts walked the moon in three separate steps in 20 hours, 14 minutes. This mission of NASA, which lasted for 11 days, was completed on 27 April 1972.

Fake accounts of ISRO and K Sivan
In the last few days on social media (especially Twitter), several fake accounts have been created in the name of Sivan of Indian Space Agency and ISRO chief, with whom it is claimed that they are his official account.

But the Indian Space Research Organization has clarified that all these profiles and accounts are fake.

According to the latest update published on ISRO’s official website, K Sivan does not have any personal account on social media. Do not trust the information given by fake accounts containing their pictures.

With this, ISRO has released the organization’s official Twitter, Facebook and YouTube links on its official website.