Here’s the First Illuminated Image of the Lunar Surface Taken by Chandrayaan-2
Here’s the First Illuminated Image of the Lunar Surface Taken by Chandrayaan-2 The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has released the first image of the surface of the moon captured by the Imaging Infrared Spectrometer (IIRS) on the Chandrayaan 2. In anofficial blog poston Thursday, the organization said the image covers part of the lunar farside in the northern hemisphere, with the Sommerfield, Stebbins and Kirkwood craters prominently visible. According to ISRO, the IIRS is“designed to measure the reflected sunlight and emitted part of Moon light from the lunar surface in narrow and contiguous spectral channels (bands) ranging from ~800 – 5000 nanometer”....