Space exploration is experiencing one of the most booming stages in the history of humanity. There was a time when traveling to the Moon it was just a matter of United States and Russia. And now Europe, Japan, China, and Saudi Arabia join the crusade, not only from the natural satellite, but from more distant borders like the rest of the planets in the Solar system.
India is the latest addition to space exploration with the launch of the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission. A space probe landed on the moon and released a rover to explore the vast grounds of the Moon.
Among the very good images of the mission that took place in India and around the world, the ones that the same spacecraft takes just before its moon landing stand out. As the probe was descending, it captured what the Moon looks like just 70 kilometers away, right at the entrance of its orbit.
“Here are images of the moon captured by the Lander Position Detection Camera (LPDC) from an altitude of about 70 km on August 19, 2023. The LPDC images help the lander determine its position (latitude and longitude) by comparing them with an onboard lunar reference map,” reported the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
“And The moon captured by the Lander 4 Imaging Camera on August 20, 2023,” they added in a second post from that same day.
Cnn in Spanish It highlights that features such as the Mare Marginis are shown on the surface, a large black spot formed by ancient asteroid strikes on the extreme edge of the near side of the Moon.