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Detailed explanation-1: -The November mosaic had the best pixel scale (0.7 meter) and lighting conditions (72° incidence angle). The debris first located by Shanmuga is about 750 meters northwest of the main crash site and was a single bright pixel identification in that first mosaic (1.3 meter pixels, 84° incidence angle).

Detailed explanation-2: -American Space Agency NASA has credited Chennai-based engineer and space science enthusiast Shanmuga Subramanian for a tip-off that led to the discovery of ISRO’s moonlander Vikram, which crashed into the surface of the moon in the last stages of a complex manoeuvre in September this year.

Detailed explanation-3: -The space agency credited Chennai engineer Shanmuga Subramanian for detecting the debris first, about 750 metres northwest of the main crash site. Subramanian had drawn NASA’s attention to a single bright pixel identification in the first mosaic of images clicked by the LRO camera.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shanmuga Subramanian (Shan)-Sr. Technical Architect-DevOps-Lennox India Technology Centre | LinkedIn.

Detailed explanation-5: -Chandrayaan-1, India’s first mission to Moon, was launched successfully on October 22, 2008 from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. The spacecraft was orbiting around the Moon at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface for chemical, mineralogical and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon.