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[h=3]NASA is baffled after failing to find any trace of India’s moon lander Chandrayaan-2, which mysteriously disappeared earlier this year after it crashed onto the lunar surface.[/h]
Things took a disastrous turn when India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft attempted to land on the Moon on September 6. As it approached the Moon’s south pole, where it had planned to land in order to confirm the presence of water ice, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with the machine. It was presumed the machine crashed into lunar surface but after more than a month of searching, there has been no evidence of Chandrayaan-2 found.
Chairman of ISRO, Kailasavadivoo Sivan, had earlier said the space agency had used thermal imaging to locate the lander, which is nicknamed Vikram, in a crater.
However, a NASA-led search has yielded no results.
More at: https://www.express.co.uk/news/scie...ia-moon-lander-crash-nasa-latest-moon-mission
Things took a disastrous turn when India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft attempted to land on the Moon on September 6. As it approached the Moon’s south pole, where it had planned to land in order to confirm the presence of water ice, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with the machine. It was presumed the machine crashed into lunar surface but after more than a month of searching, there has been no evidence of Chandrayaan-2 found.
Chairman of ISRO, Kailasavadivoo Sivan, had earlier said the space agency had used thermal imaging to locate the lander, which is nicknamed Vikram, in a crater.
However, a NASA-led search has yielded no results.
More at: https://www.express.co.uk/news/scie...ia-moon-lander-crash-nasa-latest-moon-mission
