Chandrayaan 2


ISRO releases 1st illuminated image of moon surface taken by Chandrayaan 2 

 
            
                    The Indian Research Space Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday released the first image of the surface of the moon captured by the Imaging Infrared Spectrometer (IIRS) payload on-board Chandrayaan 2. "See the first illuminated image of the lunar surface acquired by #Chandrayaan2's IIRS payload. IIRS is designed to measure reflected sunlight from the lunar surface in narrow and contiguous spectral channels," ISRO tweeted along with the picture on its account. The image covers part of the lunar farside in the northern hemisphere. A few prominent craters (Summerfield, Stebbins and Kirkwood) are seen in the image.

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