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Chandrayaan 3’s lander, Vikram, shares first pics of Moon after detaching from spacecraft

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Shillong, Aug 19: Chandrayaan 3’s lander Vikram shared the latest images of the moon on Friday after completing a manoeuvre that took it closer to its destination.

India’s space research organisation (ISRO) shared stunning images that have been taken by the Lander Imager (LI) Camera-1 on X (previously known as Twitter). In the pictures, different craters of the moon are shown, one of which is the Giordano Bruno crater, one of the youngest large craters on the moon.

The pictures were taken after the lander successfully detached from the spacecraft’s propulsion module on Thursday.

“Thanks for the ride, mate,” ISRO tweeted.

The “soft landing” of the lander is expected on the south polar region of the moon on August 23, while the propulsion module will continue to orbit around the moon and study the Earth’s atmosphere.

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Only after the lander touches down and the lunar dust settles ‘Pragyaan’ rover will roll down from the Vikram Lander. Then the lander will take images of the rover, and vice versa.

Chandrayaan-3, the third in India’s programme of lunar exploration, was launched on July 14 and is expected to build on the success of its earlier moon missions.

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Chandrayaan-2 was launched in July 2019, but it was only partially successful.

India’s first Moon mission started in 2008.

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