CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -NASA released an image taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO ) that showed the site of the spacecraft’s impact (September 6 in India and September 7 in the U.S.) and associated debris field, with parts scattered over almost two dozen locations spanning several kilometres.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Vikram Lander found,” said the headline of an announcement from Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) center on its website, and acknowledged upfront the role played by Shanmuga Subramanian, a Chennai engineer who first alerted the center to the crash site.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chandrayaan-2’s ‘Vikram’ lander is lying in a titled position on the surface of the moon but is in one piece, an official of the Indian Space Research Organisation has said amid efforts by the space agency to re-establish communication with it.

Detailed explanation-4: -Almost three months after Chandrayaan 2-India’s second mission to moon- went awry in the last 2.1km of its journey, US space agency Nasa has located the lander with the help of observation made by an Indian engineer. “This image shows the Vikram Lander impact point and associated debris field.

Detailed explanation-5: -On August 20, 2019, Chandrayaan-2 was successfully inserted into lunar orbit. While orbiting the moon in a 100 km lunar polar orbit, on September 02, 2019, Vikram Lander was separated from the Orbiter in preparation for landing.