Chandrayaan-3 lander instrument starts serving! In a first, NASA orbiter 'pings' Vikram on Moon: Experiment explained
Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Vikram lander on the lunar surface, NASA said in a press release. The ISRO said on Friday that an instrument on the Chandrayaan-3 lander has started serving as a location marker near the lunar south pole.
Chandrayaan-3's Vikram module had touched down on the Moon on August 23, 2023. According to the NASA, this successful experiment "opens the door to a new style of precisely locating targets on the Moon’s surface".
The US space agency informed that tracking the location of Earth-orbiting satellites from the ground is usually done using laser pulses directed toward the object and measuring the time it takes for the light to return. ALSO READ: Artificial intelligence will start ruling many things, says ISRO chief S Somanath "But using the technique in reverse – to send laser pulses from a moving spacecraft to a stationary one to determine its precise location – has many applications at the Moon," scientists said.
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