ISRO Posts Pics Captured By Chandrayaan-3 Weeks Before It Completes Its Journey
Before it lands on the moon, Chandrayaan-3 will perform multiple de-orbiting manoeuvres to bring it closer to the lunar surface so that lander Vikram can land there. Chandrayaan-3 is expected to land on the moon on August 23. Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar mission, has shared fresh images of the moon, which have been posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) by Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro). The combination of images shows Earth as captured by Chandrayaan-3’s Lander Image camera as well as a photo of the moon a day after the spacecraft entered the lunar orbit. Chandrayaan-3 successfully entered into the lunar orbit on Saturday (August 5). It was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota on July 14. It is expected to land on the moon on August 23. In the fresh images, Isro has marked craters Eddington, Aristarchus and Pythagoras ...