NASA has found the debris of the Vikram moon lander and had also mentioned about an 'Indian space enthusiast' who examined pictures of the area of the moon taken by a US orbiting camera. The first mosaic image of the likely crash site made from pictures taken by the LROC on September 17 was downloaded by several people to look …
Almost three months after Chandrayaan 2—India’s second mission to moon— went awry in the last 2.1km of its journey, US space agency Nasa has located the lander with the help of observation made by an Indian engineer. This image released by NASA shows the Vikram Lander impact point and associated debris field. “S” indicates debris identified by Shanmuga Subramanian,” said …
A dark, prickly, haloed bloom is tattooed on a distant field of pock-marked desolation: the silent portrait of a thwarted dream. This arresting Nasa image, released on December 3, shows the precise spot on the Moon's surface where Vikram, the lander deployed in India's Chandrayaan-2 mission, hard-landed in early September. "Despite the loss, getting that close to the surface was …
He combed through the photo night after night, enduring many false eureka moments -- oh, those pesky boulders -- before he found what was looking for: a small white dot. On December 3, Shanmuga Subramanian's discovery would be revealed to the world by Nasa: the tiny dot was, in fact, a piece of Vikram, the Chandrayaan-2 mission's lander. He would …
