CHANDRAYAAN 2 - What Happened and What's Next?
India came 0.0006 per cent close to becoming the first country to do a soft-landing on the lunar south pole.
Vikram -- named after the father of India's space programme (Vikram Sarabhai) -- went silent just 2.1 kilometres above the lunar surface
But all isn't bad. Chandrayaan-2 will circle and study the Moon remotely for a year, safely from the lunar orbit. A successful landing would have made India just the fourth country to land a vessel on the lunar surface, and only the third to operate a robotic rover there
Final phase of "terrifying 15 minute" landing process was going on well till the rough braking phase.
Vikram's descent was as planned and a "normal performance" was observed up to an altitude of 2.1 km. Subsequently, communication from lander to the ground stations was lost.
what's next?
Chandrayaan 2 orbiter will try to establish contact with the lander and locate its landing site while in orbit.
The 2,379-kg orbiter carries eight scientific payloads for mapping the lunar surface and study the exosphere of the Moon. The lunar south pole is believed to have deposits of water ice, a resource invaluable for future human settlements on the moon.
Isro plans to send astronauts to space by 2022; an Orbiter mission to Mars between 2022 and 2023; another mission to Moon -- Chandrayaan-3 -- in late 2020s; Venus mission in 2023; Mission for Sun and will build a space station.
#Chandrayaan2 #ISRO #MOON
Watch More Videos:
The Great Green Wall of Africa - A Fight Against Desertification
• The Great Green Wall of Africa - A Fi...
Why satellites and space telescopes are covered in gold foil? :
• Why satellites and space telescopes a...
Artificial Photosynthesis OR Plant 2,470,000,000 Trees To Stop Global Warming:
• Artificial Photosynthesis OR Plant 2,...
116 Images by NASA for Aliens in Voyagers:
• These are the Images for Aliens in NA...
What would happen if the earth doubled in size? :
• What would happen if the earth double...
Music:
Palmtrees by Scandinavianz / scandinavianz
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/_palmtrees
Music promoted by Audio Library • Palmtrees – Scandinavianz (No Copyrig...
Video Credit: #ISRO
Watch video CHANDRAYAAN 2 - What Happened and What's Next? online without registration, duration hours minute second in high quality. This video was added by user scienceOgram 07 September 2019, don't forget to share it with your friends and acquaintances, it has been viewed on our site 54 once and liked it 11 people.