The Indian Space Research Organisation's (Isro) second Moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, is important for everyone and it made curious with new surprises and developments every other day as it makes it way to the South Pole of the Moon.
Isro has been kind enough to update Chandrayaan-2's progress through space and has even share some breathtaking photos of the Earth as well as the Moon.
In the first week of August, Chandrayaan-2 sent first pictures of Earth as viewed in space as it was moving away from the planet.
In a series of tweets, Isro shared the Earth's pictures clicked by LI4 Camera of Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander on August 3, 2019.
The pictures show the Earth in different hues.
Earlier in July, Isro had said the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was in "good health" and moving in the "right direction".
On August 22, Isro announced on Twitter that Chandrayaan-2 shot an image of the Moon from a height of over 2,000 km as it flies around the satellite, preparing to land a rover on the lunar surface.
The image was shot on August 21 and was taken from a height of 2,650 km, Isro said.
In the photo, Isro highlighted two significant lunar landmarks -- the Apollo crater and the Mare Orientale basin.
Isro is aiming for a soft landing of the lander (spacecraft) in the South Pole region of the moon where no country has gone so far.
In a giant leap for the country's ambitious low-cost space programme, most powerful three-stage rocket GSLV-MkIII-M1 had launched the spacecraft into the Earth's orbit on July 22 from the spaceport in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.
The agency has planned a total of 15 orbit raising manoeuvres before the 3,850 kilogrammes (kg) three-module Chandrayaan-2 comprising an orbiter, lander and rover are brought around the Moon, which is at a distance of nearly four lakh km from the Earth.
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