Set your space clocks!
India’s #Chandrayaan3 is expected to complete a soft landing in the #Moon’s south polar region on August 24 at 6:04 p.m. IST/August 23 at 8:34 a.m. EDT)
watch it live
https://www.planetary.org/video/planetary-society-live
#IRSO #Chandrayaan3 coverage going live in about 10 hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLA_64yz8Ss
#IRSO #Chandrayaan3 Live stream is up. Landing planned to be in less than 30 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLA_64yz8Ss&ab_channel=ISROOfficial
1KM altitude from #moon. Decent Nominal
SOFT LANDING CONFIRMED!
Congrats. India becomes the 4th country to land on the moon
Mission will last about 14 days until solar power is no longer available
#IRSO #Chandrayaan3 Image of Rover ramp on surface of moon
Right now we are only get Cell phone images from those in mission control, no official high res images.
#IRSO confirmation that #PragyanRover has exited the ramp, rolled onto the #lunarsurface
Around 1:30am IST today, the rover started leaving #indian imprints on the talcum powder-like #lunar soil
still no official hi-res photos
It seems #isro
has been told by the office of Prime Minister of India to withheld post landing images of #Chandrayaan3 He would be visiting the headquarter today and would personally release images clicked by rover to take political mileage.
litteral holding back science to make a political stunt
PM Modi has graciously allowed #IRSO to release images of #Chandrayaan3. Right now they are all videos on #Xitter
But we got a nice Indian Rover now making tracks on the moon's surface