India’s Space Agency has located the lander of Chandrayaan 2 on the moon, days after they lost contact with it during failed landing.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now trying to establish contact with it, ISRO chief has said.
The lander Vikram and rover Pragyan were just 2.1 kilometres from moon’s surface and were minutes away from attempting the historic soft landing near the South Pole of the moon when it lost contact with the space agency on early Saturday morning.
But the very next day, ISRO announced they had located the lander on the lunar surface.
“The cameras from the moon mission’s orbiter has located the lander,” Dr K Sivan, the Chairman of ISRO said.
“We are trying to have contact. It will be communicated soon.”
A successful soft landing on the moon's surface would have made India the fourth country after the United States, Russia and China - to achieve the feat.
The lunar orbiter, which is in orbit around the moon, is now expected to be operational for seven years and help in the understanding of the moon's evolution, mapping of its minerals and water molecules in polar regions.
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