{"id":5853,"date":"2019-09-09T10:38:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T10:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2019-09-09T10:38:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T10:38:43","slug":"chandrayaan-2-lander-has-been-located-in-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/chandrayaan-2-lander-has-been-located-in-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan 2 Lander has been located in Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) earlier lost contact with the Vikram Lander, one of three components of the Chandrayaan 2, minutes before its touchdown on the lunar surface in the early hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same orbiter which located the lander has also been\nprovided with a communication channel, which envisages such eventuality, adding\nthat a same line of side-channel can be used to establish the communication\nwith the lander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chandrayaan-2&#8217;s Lander module Vikram has been located on the\nlunar surface. The Lander was located by the image sent captured by the\non-board camera of Chandrayaan-2 orbiter. The image also showed that rover\nPragyan is housed inside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Orbiter:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The camera of the orbiter has the highest resolution camera\nof 0.3m in any lunar mission so far. It is expected that it will provide\nhigh-resolution images which will be immensely useful to the global scientific\ncommunity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The orbiter has 8 payloads to map the lunar surface and\nstudy the outer atmosphere of the Moon. The payloads of the Orbiter will\nconduct remote-sensing observations from a 100 km orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) earlier lost contact with the Vikram Lander, one of three components of the Chandrayaan 2, minutes before its touchdown on the lunar surface in the early hours. 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