Chandrayaan-3 Lander Spotted On The Moon By NASA Satellite

 On August 23, India took a giant leap as the Chandrayaan-3 lander module successfully landed on the moon's South Pole.

Chandrayaan-3 lander is in the center of the image.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the American space agency NASA recently captured a photograph of the lander of Chandrayaan-3, India's third mission to the moon. It is the first spacecraft to successfully touch down near the lunar south pole, and this image was taken by LRO on August 27, just four days after the historic landing on the moon.

Sharing the image on social media platform X, the space agency wrote, "LRO spacecraft recently imaged the Chandrayaan-3 lander on the Moon's surface."According to NASA, the LRO camera acquired an oblique view (42-degree slew angle) of the lander four days later. The bright halo around the vehicle resulted from the rocket plume interacting with the fine-grained regolith (soil).

LRO is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington.