The Indian Probe Chandrayaan has sent Earth its first ground-based image after landing near the moon’s south pole, a milestone in satellite exploration.
After a successful lunar landing at 14:33 on August 23, Chandrayaan 3 established a communications link with the Indian Space Agency (ISRO) ground control center.
The image captured by the Landing Imager Camera (LIC) instrument after the moon landing shows part of the Chandrayaan-3 landing site, a relatively flat region. You can also see one of the ship’s support legs grim that accompanies her
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
The image captured by the
Landing Imager Camera
after the landing.It shows a portion of Chandrayaan-3's landing site. Seen also is a leg and its accompanying shadow.
Chandrayaan-3 chose a relatively flat region on the lunar surface 🙂… pic.twitter.com/xi7RVz5UvW
— ISRO (@isro) August 23, 2023
ISRO also circulated images of the lunar soil on its X (Twitter) account during the year’s last stage of descent.
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
Updates:The communication link is established between the Ch-3 Lander and MOX-ISTRAC, Bengaluru.
Here are the images from the Lander Horizontal Velocity Camera taken during the descent. #Chandrayaan_3#Ch3 pic.twitter.com/ctjpxZmbom
— ISRO (@isro) August 23, 2023
The aim of Chandrayaan-3, which consists of a lander and a rover, is to develop and test the technologies required for the missions. interplanetaries. The rover will perform one Chemical Analysis spot on the lunar surface in search of water in the form of Ice said to be at the South Pole.
