Chandrayaan-2: Here’s what India’s second lunar mission has done so far

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Lunar surface imaged by Terrain Mapping Camera-2(TMC-2) of #Chandrayaan2 on August 23 at an altitude of about 4375 km showing craters such as Jackson, Mach, Korolev and Mitra (In the name of Prof. Sisir Kumar Mitra)

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Apart from this, the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has also clicked photographs of the north polar region of the Moon, that shows impact craters such as Plaskett, Rozhdestvenskiy and Hermite – one of the coldest spots in the solar system, the ISRO release said.

This is not the first time that ISRO has released the images clicked by the Chandrayaan-2 mission. In fact, last week images of the Moon as captured by Chandrayaan-2 were also shared and prior to that, it had also clicked a few images of the Earth while was orbiting around the planet. Here are the previous photos that Chandrayaan-2 has clicked.

Going ahead, Chandrayaan-2 is scheduled to go for its third lunar orbit manoeuvre which will be taking place on Wednesday, August 28 in between 05:30-06:30 hours IST, the agency said in an earlier update. Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft had its second lunar bound orbit manoeuvre last week on Wednesday, August 21.

Last week on August 20, the Chandrayaan-2 mission crossed a key milestone in its journey to the Moon, after it entered the lunar orbit, almost 30 days after being launched on July 22 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

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Chandrayaan-2 is India’s first lunar mission attempt to land a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. The lander and rover components of Chandrayaan-2 mission, named Vikram and Pragyaan, respectively, are scheduled to make a soft landing on September 7 at 01:40 hours IST.