The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday, 4 October released new images of the Moon’s surface captured by Chandrayaan-2’s Orbiter High-Resolution Camera (OHRC).
The OHRC clicks high spatial resolution images, from an orbit of 100 km and a swath on 3 km, providing the sharpest images from a lunar orbiter platform.
The ISRO on Tuesday, 1 October had said it has not given up efforts to spring Chandrayaan-2's lander Vikram lying on the lunar surface back to life after a hard-landing more than three weeks ago.
ISRO on 7 September said ground stations lost communication with Vikram (with rover Praygan tucked inside it), minutes before its planned soft-landing on the Lunar surface.
Since then the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency had been making “all possible”efforts to establish link with the lander but had apparently suspended those operations 10 days ago following night fall on the Moon.
The mission life of the lander and the rover will be one Lunar day which is equal to fourteen earth days, ISRO had said prior to the launch of Chandrayaan-2.
The Chandrayaan-2 was a highly complex mission, which brought together an orbiter, lander and rover to explore the unexplored south pole of the Moon.
(With inputs from PTI)
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