18″ Starmaster + camera Lumenera Infinity 2-2 + 2.5X Powermate barlow + red filter 354 images stacked with Registax 4 beta. Note: This is a classic LPOD from S6 yrs old but still perhaps the best image of this area!ġ2 September 2006. Of particular interest are the Topographic Products (menu option in the upper left of the page), which are. LROC imagery can be explored graphically using its Quickmap interface and searched on its RDR Product Select page. This is very peculiar! Most of the small craters in this image are secondaries, but can you find the two short lengths of elongated and overlapping craters that are volcanic collapses? Keep looking at every bit of the image to find more fascinating bits to explore and try to understand. The LROC narrow-angle camera (NAC) has imaged most of the Moon's surface at a resolution of one meter per pixel or better. Near its north end the famous sinuous Diamondback Rille (middle right) is crossed by a short rille segment that turns into a curved ridge. This photo was captured using LROC Quickmap fly-around of the targeted landing site. Smaller, more classical domes, are apparent in the upper right area too. (Data layers for the Moon’s south polar region from LRO Mini-RF, LOLA, LROC NAC, and LROC WAC illumination percent rendered in ACT Quickmap) Final Report of the Lunar Critical Data Products Specific Action Team. The LRO flew over the designated landing site for Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram Lander on September 17. But this image suggests a very low third dome of similar size, to Arago’s southwest and exactly in line with the other two. Are there three Arago domes? The crater Arago (upper left) is famous for the two nearby domes, one to the north and another to the west. Here are some of the things to pop out from the extreme enhancement. The story is more interesting, but the image is more tonally stark. Mike Wirths sent a wonderful image of most of Mare Tranquilliatitis and I strongly enhanced it to reveal delicate rilles and subtle domes.
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You may also want to check out the LROC’s map of the entire lunar surface, focused on the co-ordinates of the landing site: 70.8°S latitude by 23.5☎ longitude.Image by Michael Wirths, Baja California, Mexico If you fancy searching for the lander yourself you can go to the LROC website, where there is an interactive map of the moon centered on the co-ordinates at which Vikram was supposed to land. The IRSO hasn’t shared the location of the crashed lander, but NASA believes it must be somewhere in this image. The projected landing site was between two of the craters seen above, Simpelius N and Manzinus C, which are located near to the south pole of the moon. There are also many shadows in the image, which could obscure the lander’s remains.
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However, it’s extremely difficult to spot the Vikram crash site from the LRO image because the lander was so small. A view looking down on the Vikram landing site (image acquired before the landing attempt), image width 87 kilometers (54 miles) [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University The LRO is able to take high-resolution images of the surface of the moon from orbit, and has previously spotted the crash site of the Israeli lander Beresheet and seen China’s Chang-e 4 lander exploring the far side of the moon. Now, NASA’s orbiting lunar spacecraft, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has snapped a picture of the area where the crash is believed to have occurred.
#Lro quickmap update
LROC Lunar QuickMap received a major update this week that includes powerful improvements to interactive features and data. Although the ISRO was able to locate the lander on the moon, they were not able to reestablish communications with it before its power ran out. LROC's Lunar QuickMap gets a hefty fall 2020 update, including new interactive features and data layers that allow for even greater user customizations, on-the-fly data analysis, and lunar exploration. It is believed that during this time the lander flipped upside down and crashed into the lunar surface. Last month, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) attempted to land the Vikram lander on the moon but lost communication with it during the final descent. There’s one new piece in the puzzle of the sad end to India’s Chandrayaan-2 moon lander.
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The scene above was captured from an LROC Quickmap fly-around of the site, image width is about 150 kilometers across the center NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Unfortunately the landing was not successful and location of the spacecraft has not been announced.
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Share The Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, attempted a landing September 7th (Friday the 6th in the United States), on a small patch of lunar highland smooth plains between Simpelius N and Manzinus C craters. I have been wanting to post this information for a while in which I show how the LRO Quickmap is a good tool to spot anomalies but not in its default configuration.