ISRO Shares First Set Of Images Of Earth Captured By Chandrayaan-2
Mumbai: In a recent development, Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) Chandrayaan-2 has sent first pictures of Earth as viewed in space.
In a series of tweets, Isro shared the Earth’s pictures clicked by LI4 Camera of Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander on August 3, 2019.
The pictures show the Earth in different hues.
“Earth as viewed by #Chandrayaan2 LI4 Camera on August 3, 2019, 17:34 UT,” Isro tweeted along with the pictures.
https://twitter.com/isro/status/1157902228511870977
Launched on July 22, Chandrayaan-2 is the world’s first-ever mission aimed towards a soft landing on the Moon’s south polar region.
In a giant leap for the country’s ambitious low-cost space program, the most powerful three-stage rocket GSLV-MkIII-M1 launched a spacecraft into orbit from spacecraft on July 22 at Srikantakota in Andhra Pradesh.
The agency has planned 15 orbit-raising manoeuvres ahead of the 3,850 kg (kg) three-module Chandrayaan-2, which includes an orbiter, lander and rover that is brought around the moon, about four million km from Earth. Is at a distance of.
Chandrayaan-2 will be subjected to a series of class manoeuvres in the coming weeks, with the planned soft landing on September 7, to move it to the surrounding area of the moon.
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