Found lunar lander lost touch of India

The US space agency said on Monday that it had found the Vikram lander that crashed on the Moon in September this year.

The location of the impact pits and debris of the Vikram on the Moon.(Photo: Space).

The image taken by NASA's Moon Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) shows the debris of the Vikram scattered across nearly two dozen locations stretching several kilometers on the lunar surface. In particular, the largest fragment has a length of 1.5m.

The first fragments were found far from the main drop point, where the largest impact crater, about 750 m to the north. They were discovered by engineer Shanmuga Subramanian from India, who spent a lot of free time scanning the lunar surface, the LRO project team said.

The Vikram lander was launched with the Chandrayaan-2 orbit on July 22 with the mission of making India the fourth country after the United States, the Soviet Union and China to successfully land on the Moon.

On 2/9, Vikram detached from the mother ship and slowly landed on Earth's natural satellite as planned, however, the ship suddenly lost contact when it was only 2.1 km from the surface of the Moon. . A few days after the failed landing, the Indian Space Research Organization said it could locate the crashed ship but could not establish contact.

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