IN PHOTOS: ISRO releases images of the Moon captured by Chandrayaan-3's Lander

ISRO on Friday released a set of visuals of the Moon captured by cameras positioned on the Lander Module of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft. Pics/screengrabs of video and pictures shared by ISRO on social media

Updated On: 2023-08-18 08:12 PM IST

Compiled by : Asif Ali Sayed

Moon as seen by the Chandrayaan-3 Lander Imager (LI) Camera-1 just after the separation of the Lander Module (LM) from the Propulsion Module (PM). Pics/screengrabs of video shared by ISRO

The images, captured after the separation of the Lander Module from the Propulsion Module of the spacecraft on Thursday, showed the craters on the Moon's surface that were marked on the photographs released by ISRO as 'Fabry', 'Giordano Bruno' and 'Harkhebi J'

The country's space agency shared on X (formerly Twitter) the images captured by the Lander Position Detection Camera (LPDC) on August 15, and visuals from the Lander Imager (LI) Camera-1 on August 17 -- just after the separation of the Lander Module from the Propulsion Module

he Lander Module comprising the lander (Vikram) and the rover (Pragyan) will on Friday be lowered to an orbit that takes it closer to the Moon's surface for the soft landing on the Lunar south pole on August 23

Announcing that the health of Chandrayaan-3's Lander Module is normal, ISRO on Friday said that the module has successfully undergone a deboosting (slowing down) operation taking it closer to the Moon

Post its launch on July 14, Chandrayaan-3 entered into the lunar orbit on August 5, following which orbit reduction maneuvers were carried out on the satellite on August 6, 9, 14 and 16, ahead of separation of both its modules on August 17, in the runup to the landing on August 23

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