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Chennai-based techie helps

NASA find Vikram lander

The US space agency’s confirmation comes nearly three months after
Chandrayaan-2 mission made a hard landing near the uncharted lunar south
pole in the wee hours of September 7, reports tehelka bureau
A 7. “The Chandrayaan2 Vikram lander has been found by our
Chennai-based techie,
NASA Moon mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. See
who helped NASA
trace the debris of In-
the first mosaic of the impact site,” NASA said in a tweet sharing
dia’s ambitious lunar
before and after impact images.
On September 7, the Indian Space Research Organisation
mission by spending
hours comparing before and after images of the landing site is (ISRO) attempted a soft landing of Vikram on the Moon. Howev-
a hero. This has been confirmed by the US space agency, which er, ISRO lost contact with Vikram shortly before the scheduled
found Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander that crashed on the touchdown. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
surface of the Moon in September. (LROC) team had released the first mosaic of images acquired
NASA’s confirmation came nearly three months after during its September 17 flyby of the Moon.
India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission made a hard landing near the The US space agency released a mosaic image of the site
uncharted lunar south pole in the wee hours of September on September 26 (but taken on September 17), inviting people