India's moon mission, Chandrayaan-3, has discovered a 160-km-wide moon crater near its landing site. Indian Space Research Organisation releases an image of Chandrayaan-3 Vikram Lander clicked around 11 a.m. IST from about 15 m through a Pragyan rover's navigation camera, hours after the release of its first image, which shows the lander resting on the moon's surface. The rover is …
The data collected by Chandrayaan 3’s Vikram Lander and Pragyan Rover has found that the Moon is more hospitable for a human colony than we thought earlier. The need to insulate In a 2015 paper titled ‘Determination of temperature variation on lunar surface and subsurface for habitat analysis and design,’ researchers Ramesh B Malla and Kevin M Brown from the …
In its latest findings, Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram Lander has detected ‘natural’ seismic activity on the lunar surface. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, ISRO wrote, “Instrument for the Lunar Seismic Activity payload on Chandrayaan 3 Lander – the first Micro Electro Mechanical Systems technology-based instrument on the moon – has recorded the movements of Rover and other payloads. Chandrayaan-3 Mission: …
Remember the Chennai based techie who in December 2019, helped spot the debris of the Vikram lander? "Chandrayaan2's Pragyan "ROVER" intact on Moon's surface and has rolled out few metres from the skeleton Vikram lander whose payloads got disintegrated due to rough landing," Subramanian said on Twitter. In an exclusive interview with India Today, Subramanian said, "We found out that …