{"id":315275,"date":"2019-09-27T04:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T04:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315275"},"modified":"2019-09-27T04:27:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T04:27:05","slug":"nasa-says-vikram-had-hard-landing-shares-images-of-chandrayaan-2-landing-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nasa-says-vikram-had-hard-landing-shares-images-of-chandrayaan-2-landing-site\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA says \u2018Vikram had hard-landing\u2019, shares images of Chandrayaan 2 landing site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315276 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NASA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/NASA.jpg 497w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/NASA-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/NASA-452x420.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/>The lander of Chandrayaan-2 had a &#8220;hard landing&#8221; when it lost contact with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)during an attempt to soft land on the lunar surface three weeks ago, NASA said on Friday, as it released images captured by its reconnaissance orbiter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, attempted a landing on Sept. 7 on a small patch of lunar highland smooth plains between Simpelius N and Manzinus C craters. Vikram had a hard landing and the precise location of the spacecraft in the lunar highlands has yet to be determined, NASA said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The images were captured from a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Quickmap fly-around of the targeted landing site image width is about 150 kilometers across the center, NASA added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The pictures were captured by NASA&#8217;s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. The images were taken at dusk, and the team was not able to locate the lander, the moon orbiter will try to locate and image the lander again in October when lighting will be favourable, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOur @LRO_NASA mission imaged the targeted landing site of India\u2019s Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram. The images were taken at dusk, and the team was not able to locate the lander. More images will be taken in October during a flyby in favorable lighting,\u201d NASA tweeted along with images.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The lander,\u00a0Vikram, was scheduled to touch down on September 7. This event was India&#8217;s first attempt to soft land on the Moon.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lander of Chandrayaan-2 had a &#8220;hard landing&#8221; when it lost contact with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)during an attempt to soft land on the lunar surface three weeks ago, NASA said on Friday, as it released images captured by its reconnaissance orbiter. The Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, attempted a landing on Sept. 7 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10570,3950],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315278,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315275\/revisions\/315278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}