177 How Discovering Moon Debris made a Software Engineer Famous
Glossary:
Vikram is the name of the lunar lander.
Chandarayaan2 is the name of the mission.
ISRO, Indian Space Research Organisation is India’s space agency.
Here is a video of the Chandrayaan 2 mission during the landing of its Vikram lander. I’ve set the time stamp to a few minutes before the landing problem occured (21km above the moon’s surface): https://youtu.be/lqQe7WsFVQg?t=2084
Here is a video of the Lunik 2 mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz8e9ZRWPTE
Here is a video about the Chandarayaan 3 mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbG_0GDvOFU
Another video about the Chandarayaan3 mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0dqYRxSNyo
Contact Shan via Twitter: @Ramanean Here is a link: https://twitter.com/Ramanean
This is Shan’s homepage:
New York Times article: NASA Finds India’s Vikram Moon Lander Crash Site, With Amateur’s Help: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/science/india-moon-mission-vikram-lander-found.html
New York Times article: A Billion Pixels and the Search for India’s Crashed Moon Lander: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/science/india-moon-mission-vikram-found.html?smid=spacecal
About the moon’s south pole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_south_pole
