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Chandrayaan 3 Captures Earth With Moon In Background, ISRO Shares Video

Chandrayaan 3

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) unveiled videos recorded by Chandrayaan 3’s Vikram lander on Friday. One of the videos, filmed by the Lander Position Detection Camera (LPDC) on August 15 while attached to the propulsion module, provides a clear view of Moon craters. Another video, captured by the Lander Imager (LI) Camera-1, offers a glimpse of Earth, albeit in a smaller form.

Chandrayaan 3 Captures First Video Of Moon

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In the main video, recorded on Indian Freedom Day, the moon’s clouded side is found in where the lander will endeavor a delicate score on August 23.

In the subsequent video, Earth should be visible with the moon behind the scenes. The video is caught soon after the arrival module and impetus module partition, effectively attempted by ISRO on Thursday. The visuals additionally show far-side lunar effect holes including Fabry, Giordano Bruno, and Harkhebi J.

Chandrayaan Vikram Lander Total Sensors

This is the set of visuals released by the Indian space agency taken from the Chandrayaan 3 mission. The Indian lunar spacecraft has earlier captured its first-ever images of the Moon as it entered the lunar orbit.

The Vikram lander has eight sensors:

1. Laser Inertial Referencing and Accelerometer Package (LIRAP)

2. Ka-Band Altimeter (KaRA)

3. Lander Position Detection Camera (LPDC)

4. LHDAC (Lander Hazard Detection & Avoidance Camera)

5. Laser Altimeter (LASA)

6. Laser Doppler Velocimeter (LDV)

7. Lander Horizontal Velocity Camera (LHVC)

8. Micro Star sensor

9. Inclinometer & Touchdown sensors

Luna-25 also shares Moon images

Russia’s Luna-25 programmed station flying in a round circle of the counterfeit satellite of the Moon has snapped a photo of the lunar surface with TV cameras of the STS-L complex. The picture shows the southern polar pit Zeeman on the rear of the Moon. The directions of the whole place compare to 75 degrees south scope and 135 degrees west longitude, the nation’s state space partnership.

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