Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) revealed the very first collection of photographs captured by Chandrayaan-2, India's second lunar mission.?
The camera on-board captured images of Earth as viewed from space. The space agency, which is headquartered in the city of Bengaluru said that the images were captured by the LI4 camera on Vikram, the lander.
A total of five images were shared by ISRO on twitter consecutively on Sunday.
These photographs were captured on August 3 by the LI4 camera that is on-board the Chandrayan-2.
The Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft is set to land on the south pole of the moon by August 20. It performed its first Earth-raising Orbit manoeuvre on 24 July. The second came on 26 July, third on 29 July and the fourth manoeuvre was completed successfully on 2 August.
With this space mission, India aims to soft-land a probe on Moon and put a satellite in its orbit.?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that the fact that Chandrayaan-2 is a fully indigenous mission would make every Indian overjoyed. ¡°It will have an Orbiter for remote sensing the Moon and also a Lander-Rover module for analysis of lunar surface,¡± he had shared on Twitter.
It attracted instant appreciation from the science and space fraternity, as well as several leading personalities from the field of politics, sports and business.?
The launch on 22 July took place from the Satish Dhawan Space Station in Sriharikota after the initial 15 July launch was delayed due to a technical snag in the launch vehicle, the GSLV Mk-III.