Vikram Lander had hard landing: NASA on its images from moon's surface

National Aeronautics ministration (NASA) on Friday posted on Twitter pictures from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from surface of moon and said it was unable to locate Indian Research Organisation's (ISRO) Chandrayaan 2's Vikram Lander. It also said that Vikram Lander h a hard landing. ISRO's Chandrayaan 2 mission faced a setback when Vikram Lander just minutes before landing on moon lost all communication on September 6, 2019. See pictures below:

NASA's pictures from LRO of moon's surface

More ims from NASA's LRO below 

scene above was captured from a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Quickmap fly-around of targeted landing site im width is about 150 kilometers across center. Credits: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University

A view looking down on Vikram landing site (im acquired before landing attempt), im width 87 kilometers (54 miles) Credits: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University

A wide view of a series of Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter Camera's narrow angle camera ims collected on Sept. 17 showing area of targeted Vikram landing site. Credits: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University

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NASA says Vikram Lander h hard landing, likely to locate it in October

NASA which released pictures taken by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRC) said that Vikram Lander must have h a hard landing. NASA said that 'precise location of craft in lunar highland' was yet to be deteremined. It also said that Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Quickmap fly-around of targeted landing site im width is about 150 kilometers across center. American ncy has saidi that it is possible that Vikram Lander was hiding under a show as photographs were taken at dusk. NASA ded that LROC will take pictures of lunar surface again to locate lander.

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India's moon mission: Chandrayaan 2

Chandrayaan 2 is India's moon mission with which it attempted to land-soft at south pole of moon. As Vikram lander of Chandrayaan 2 was about to touchdown lunar surface, in morning at 1:50 AM, ISRO's Deep Antenna lost communication with Chandrayaan-2's lander- Vikram. lander h descended from 30km to 2km smoothly, informed ISRO. During final smooth braking st, it h lost communication with Mission Control. Vikram was aimed at soft-landing on moon, making India fourth country to do so.   

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