ISRO posts pictures captured by Chandrayan 3

Published on: 10 Aug 2023 at 11:28 AM

Published by: thefactnews

Delhi, August 10

Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar mission, has shared fresh images of the moon, which have been posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) by Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro). The combination of images shows Earth as captured by Chandrayaan-3’s Lander Image camera as well as a photo of the moon a day after the spacecraft entered the lunar orbit. Chandrayaan-3 successfully entered into the lunar orbit on Saturday (August 5). It was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota on July 14.

It is expected to land on the moon on August 23.
In the fresh images, Isro has marked craters Eddington, Aristarchus and Pythagoras along with Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms), one of the large, dark plains on the lunar surface. Oceanus Procellarum is the largest of the “seas”, stretching more than 2,500 km across the moon’s north-south axis and covering an area of roughly 4,000,000 square kilometres.