Sand artist's 'magical' tribute to Chandrayaan 2 milestone

Sand artist from Odisha Sudarsan Pattnaik on Tuesday celebrated milestone achieved by ISRO's moon mission Chandrayaan by entering lunar orbit as planned by ncy. artist always makes sand art on various events and issues. On occasion of India's moon mission's success, he created a beautiful tribute for Chandrayaan 2 congratulating ISRO.

Netizens spoke reacted tweeting about his art

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Chandrayaan 2 anunces milestone

Anuncing about feat, ISRO statement said: "Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) maeuvre was completed successfully today (August 20, 2019) at 0902 hrs IST as planned, using onboard propulsion system. duration of maeuvre was 1738 seconds. With this, Chandrayaan-2 was successfully inserted into a Lunar orbit. orbit achieved is 114 km x 18072 km." Chandrayaan 2 landing date next is September 7. 

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ISRO chief speaks about Chandrayaan 2 landing

"We have huge a number of emission operations like earthbound maeuvre and lunar orbit maeuvre and its timings are adjusted, so that landing timing is same. landing timing is sacrosanct for us as we want landing to start at beginning of lunar day "