Vikram Lander Shares Images Of Moon During Descent & After Landing; What’s Next?

By OB Bureau On Aug 23, 2023

Moon's image from vikram lander — Pic courtesy X/ISRO

New Delhi: Two hours after Chandrayaan-3’s successful soft landing on Moon, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) shared images of the Moon taken by Vikram Lander during its descent and after landing on the lunar surface on Wednesday evening.

“The communication link is established between the Ch-3 Lander and MOX-ISTRAC, Bengaluru. Here are the images from the Lander Horizontal Velocity Camera taken during the descent,” ISRO wrote on X along with the pictures.

Check out pictures taken during descent as shared by ISRO:

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
Updates:

The communication link is established between the Ch-3 Lander and MOX-ISTRAC, Bengaluru.

Here are the images from the Lander Horizontal Velocity Camera taken during the descent. #Chandrayaan_3 #Ch3 pic.twitter.com/ctjpxZmbom

— ISRO (@isro) August 23, 2023

Here is the image taken from Vikram lander showing a portion of Chandrayaan-3’s landing site. A leg of the lander and its accompanying shadow are also visible.

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
The image captured by the
Landing Imager Camera
after the landing.

It shows a portion of Chandrayaan-3’s landing site. Seen also is a leg and its accompanying shadow.

Chandrayaan-3 chose a relatively flat region on the lunar surface 🙂… pic.twitter.com/xi7RVz5UvW

— ISRO (@isro) August 23, 2023

After the nation celebrated the success of historic Chandrayaan-3 mission, all eyes are now on the deployment of the Pragyan rover.

Pragyan, which will play the role of an explorer, will roll out from Vikram lander down the ramp and on to the Moon’s surface. It will leave an indelible mark — footprints adorned with ISRO’S logo and India’s Emblem — which will symbolise for eternity India’s moon mission.

India became the first nation to land on the Moon’s south polar region, and only the fourth country to make a soft landing on lunar surface.

Pragyan rover’s journey will begin next, promising exciting scientific discoveries and ground-breaking achievements.

A remarkable aspect of Chandrayaan-3 is the exchange of photographs between Vikram and Pragyan, which are traversing the vast expanse of space and are being relayed back to Earth through a specialised communication network. This is made possible by the capabilities of the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, the propulsion module and ISRO’s Deep Space Network Antennas.