EDUCATIONAL NEWS UPDATES DATE:-02/11/2018.
EDUCATIONAL NEWS UPDATES DATE:-02/11/2018.
CHANDRAYAAN 2: NASA'S LRO PERFORMS SECOND FLYOVER TO LOCATE VIKRAM'S LANDING SITE ON THE MOON
NASA has scheduled a flyover of its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) over the landing site of India’s Vikram Lander yesterday, 14 October. It is trying to locate ISRO's Vikram lander and capture images of it. We just might get lucky this time around and finally see the condition of the crashed lander as the lighting conditions are thought to be better. The LRO, on a previous occasion (17 September), has flown over the landing site but was not able to see Vikram because it was dusk at the lunar South Pole. "Long shadows in the area" was thought to be obscuring the area. However, NASA did release images of the moon and the site where the lander is thought to have crashed . The lander is most likely dead after the lunar night. (14 earth days makes up one lunar night). ISRO had said once the lunar night falls , there would be no sunlight for the lander to generate power for its working and also it was not designed to operate in the heavy cold tem...
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