Thursday (October 17): Chandrayaan-2 has beamed back today the first illuminated image of the lunar surface acquired by Imaging Infrared Spectrometer (IIRS) payload.
The image was shared by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on its Twitter account.
“See the first illuminated image of the lunar surface acquired by #Chandrayaan2’s IIRS payload. IIRS is designed to measure reflected sunlight from the lunar surface in narrow and contiguous spectral channels,” ISRO tweeted.
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See the first illuminated image of the lunar surface acquired by #Chandrayaan2’s IIRS payload. IIRS is designed to measure reflected sunlight from the lunar surface in narrow and contiguous spectral channels.For details visit:https://t.co/C3STg4H79S pic.twitter.com/95N2MpebY4
— ISRO (@isro) October 17, 2019
The image shows part of the lunar farside in the northern hemisphere. The image covers Sommmer field crater floor, the sunlit inner rim of crater Kirkwood, Stebbins crater floor, fresh crater Ejecta within Sommerfield crater floor, and Stebbins crater central peak.
The image comes more than 20 days after the Indian space agency released a few pictures captured by the Orbiter High-Resolution Camera (OHRC) onboard Chandrayaan-2.
The OHRC provides very high spatial resolution images of Moon’s surface.
ISRO said Chandrayaan-2 has begun spectroscopic studies of the lunar surface.
In a statement, ISRO said the major objective of Imaging Infrared Spectrometer (IIRS) is to understand the origin and evolution of the Moon in a geologic context by mapping the lunar surface mineral and volatile composition using signatures in the reflected solar spectrum.
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