ISRO Shares Videos of Vikram Lander from Chandrayaan-3
Videos of the Vikram lander from Chandrayaan 3 are released by ISRO; they display the Earth and Moon in the distance.
On Friday, videos taken by Chandrayaan 3’s Vikram lander were made public by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). A video taken on August 15 while the Lander Position Detection Camera (LPDC) was connected to the propulsion module gives a clear image of Moon craters. A different film, shot by the Lander Imager (LI) Camera-1, gives viewers a look of Earth, albeit in a more condensed manner.
The moon’s dark side can be seen in the first footage, which was taken on the day of Indian Independence, where the lander will try to make a soft touchdown on August 23.
In the second video, the moon can be seen in the distance behind Earth. The footage was shot right after ISRO successfully separated the propulsion and landing modules on Thursday. The images also display Fabry, Giordano Bruno, and Harkhebi J, three lunar impact craters on the far side of the moon.
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
🌖 as captured by the
Lander Position Detection Camera (LPDC)
on August 15, 2023#Chandrayaan_3#Ch3 pic.twitter.com/nGgayU1QUS— ISRO (@isro) August 18, 2023
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
View from the Lander Imager (LI) Camera-1
on August 17, 2023
just after the separation of the Lander Module from the Propulsion Module #Chandrayaan_3 #Ch3 pic.twitter.com/abPIyEn1Ad— ISRO (@isro) August 18, 2023
The Indian space agency has made available this collection of images from the Chandrayaan 3 mission. Earlier, as the Indian lunar spacecraft reached the lunar orbit, it took its first-ever pictures of the Moon.
The Vikram lander has nine sensors:
1. Laser Inertial Referencing and Accelerometer Package (LIRAP)
2. Ka-Band Altimeter (KaRA)
3. Lander Position Detection Camera (LPDC)
4. LHDAC (Lander Hazard Detection & Avoidance Camera)
5. Laser Altimeter (LASA)
6. Laser Doppler Velocimeter (LDV)
7. Lander Horizontal Velocity Camera (LHVC)
8. Micro Star sensor
9. Inclinometer & Touchdown sensors
Luna-25 also shares Moon images
A photograph of the lunar surface was shot using the STS-L complex’s television cameras by Russia’s Luna-25 automatic station, which is currently in a circular orbit around the artificial satellite of the Moon. On the reverse side of the Moon, the image depicts the southern polar crater Zeeman. According to a message by the nation’s state space corporation Roscosmos on the social media platform Telegram on Thursday, the crater’s center lies at 75 degrees south latitude and 135 degrees west longitude.
absent from the Earth’s crater According to the statement, the height of the encircling shaft at Zeeman, a singular item on the lunar surface that is of considerable interest to experts, reaches 8 kilometers above the bottom’s relatively flat surface.
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