ISRO releases pictures of lunar surface captured by ‘high-resolution’ cameras onboard Chandrayaan-2

New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: High-resolution pictures of the Moon’s surface were shared by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday. The pictures were taken by the advanced cameras onboard the Chandrayaan-2’ Orbiter. The ISRO said, that Orbiter High-Resolution Camera (OHRC) gives high dimensional images of the lunar surface.   

Pictures of the Boguslawsky crater, located on the south pole of Moon’s surface and close up images of several other small craters and boulders on the lunar surface were taken by the High-resolution cameras onboard the Chandrayaan-2.  

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"With a spatial resolution of 25 cm from a 100km orbit and a swath of 3km, the Orbiter High-resolution camera provides the sharpest images ever from a lunar orbiter platform. OHRC is an important new tool for lunar topographic studies of select regions," ISRO said in a tweet.

#ISRO
Have a look at the images taken by #Chandrayaan2's Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC).
For more images please visit https://t.co/YBjRO1kTcL pic.twitter.com/K4INnWKbaM

— ISRO (@isro) October 4, 2019

Earlier, the ISRO on Thursday, in a tweet said that the Chandrayaan-2’s Orbiter payload ‘CLASS’, within few days of examination of the lunar surface, identified some charged particles and their energy variations on the lunar soil.

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CLASS, #Chandrayaan2's Orbiter payload, in its first few days of observation, could detect charged particles and its intensity variations during its first passage through the geotail during Sept.
For more details, please visit https://t.co/OzfhxGMaVP pic.twitter.com/i1sLbouN86

— ISRO (@isro) October 3, 2019

The ISRO’s ambitious Chandrayaan-2 mission was aimed to uncover the mysterious south pole of the Moon, which has not been explored by any other space agency across the world.

The Chndrayaan-2 after its 45-day long journey reached the Moon’s surface on September 7. However, the Moon lander ‘Vikram’ -- one of the three components of Chandrayaan-2 -- lost its contact from the space agency after its hard landing on the lunar surface. Despite several attempts to establish a connection with Vikram, the ISRO failed in making any contact with the lander yet. 

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The American space agency NASA also captured images of the lunar region where lander ‘Vikram’ made an unsuccessful attempt to a soft landing. The images were captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft of NASA, on September 17 during its flyby near the south pole of the moon, the space agency said.  +