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In Pictures: ISRO releases images of Earth taken by Chandrayaan 2

The pictures were captured by L 14 camera on board Chandrayaan 2, showing the earth in different hues.

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New Delhi: Space agency ISRO on Sunday released the first set of pictures of the Earth captured by Chandrayaan 2, the country’s second Moon mission launched a fortnight ago.

The pictures were captured by L 14 camera on board Chandrayaan II, showing the earth in different hues.

“Earth as viewed by #Chandrayaan2 LI4 Camera on August 3, 2019 17:34 UT,” the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) tweeted along with the pictures.


Also read: The four stages Chandrayaan-2 will go through before it lands on the moon


 

Earth as viewed by #Chandrayaan2 LI4 Camera on August 3, 2019 17:28 UT | ISRO
Chandrayaan2 has been beaming back images of space since it was launched on 22 July | Chandrayaan2 | ISRO
Earth as viewed by #Chandrayaan2 LI4 Camera on August 3, 2019 17:29 UT | ISRO
The satellite was initially scheduled to be launched on 15 July, but was called off due to a technical snag in the launch vehicle system | Chandrayaan2 | ISRO
Earth as viewed by #Chandrayaan2 LI4 Camera on August 3, 2019 17:32 UT | ISRO
The spacecraft consists of three vehicles: The Chandrayaan2 orbiter, the Vikram lander (named after Vikram Sarabhai, the father of India’s space programme), and the Pragyan rover | Chandrayaan2 | ISRO
Earth as viewed by #Chandrayaan2 LI4 Camera on August 3, 2019 17:34 UT | ISRO
The spacecraft has been performing a series of orbit-raising manoeuvres around the Earth to escape its gravity. Chandrayaan2 is expected to finally escape the gravitational pull in its sixth orbit by 7 September | Chandrayaan2 | ISRO
Earth as viewed by #Chandrayaan2 LI4 Camera on August 3, 2019 17:37 UT | ISRO
Earth as viewed by the satellite’s LI4 Camera on August 3, 2019 17:37 UT | Chandrayaan2 | ISRO

Also read: Chandrayaan-2 ‘cheaper than Interstellar’, but India’s space ambition can’t be about cost


 

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Finally we get to see these pictures. They are not of good quality. They are not sharp. The colors are also artificial: is the earth yellow-green? What about the colour of the oceans? Last I heard it was blue.

    Isro is good at propulsion as the Mangalyaan probe showed. But they are clearly lagging in other fields.

    And can they use simpler names? The announcer herself is mispronouncing it. If NASA can launch a satellite called Chandra, why not Isro?

  2. Beautiful pale blue dot. As children, we were taught proofs that the earth was round, oblate spheroid, actually. After all the others came the clincher : Photographs taken from satellites show this to be true.

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