NASA discovers Chandrayaan-2 Vikram lander, released photo on the lunar surface

In September this year, the US space agency NASA has detected the wreck of India's ambitious Chandrayaan-2 Vikram Lander. NASA has released an image taken from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on Tuesday morning. In which the location affected by Vikram Lander is visible. NASA released a statement saying the Vikram Lander has been found on the lunar surface.

The #Chandrayaan2 Vikram lander has been found by our @NASAMoon mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. See the first mosaic of the impact site https://t.co/GA3JspCNuh pic.twitter.com/jaW5a63sAf

— NASA (@NASA) December 2, 2019

The picture shows the debris area of ​​Vikram Lander through blue and green dots. In the statement, NASA said that it had released a photo of the crash site on September 26 and called people to search for signs of Vikram Lander. After which a person named Shanmuga Subramanian approached the LRO project with identification of the wreck.

After which the LORC team confirmed the identity of the lander site by comparing before and after images. Shanmuga identified the wreck located approximately 750 meters northwest of the crash site. This was a clear picture of the first mosaic (1.3 m pixels, 84-degree incidence angle). The Impact Creator, Ray, and the extensive debris area at Nambar Mosaic are well visible. The three largest pieces of debris are 2x2 pixels.

In October, NASA released a statement stating that the Chandrayaan-2 lander has not been found in the latest photos from the orbiter. NASA said that the lander might have hidden in a shadow at the time our orbiter took the picture. A NASA project scientist had been told that our orbiter had taken a photo of the Chandramayan-2's Vikram landing site on October 14, but there we did not find any picture in which Vikram Lander-2 could be seen. Explain that Vikram Lander had made a hard landing on the Moon's the South Pole instead of Soft, due to which he lost contact with ISRO.