the U.s. space agency nasa’s probe has photographed unsuccessfully to Moon region, which three weeks ago lost indian kuulaskeutuja Vikram was on the way.

Chandrayaan 2 -kuuluotain of detached Vikram was scheduled to land on the Moon’s south pole in two of the crater between the beginning of September. The moon soil was travel a couple more miles and a few minutes, when the connection to Ground is broken.

a Final message on the basis of Vikram had drifted to one side the planned route.

india’s space agency Indian is holding out hope that the lander would still have reached the Moon intact. Thus, India would be the fourth in soft kuulaskussa successful state. The lunar south pole, it would have been the first visitors.

180 degrees to put the devices to cross

We hope to begin with, that Vikram lying in the moon’s south pole near side but in the condition that the connection should still in some way be a form available.

We said at the time that the Moon orbiting Chandrayaan 2 was detected Vikram landing site. Pictures Its not released.

Contact tried to wake up for two weeks. Companies stopped because the lander’s hardware was not designed to withstand the Moon’s up -180-degree nights.

Vikram and the rover was scheduled to work only the Moon one day, i.e. the Country for two weeks, if the landing was successful.

Nasa has now released images (you move to another service) that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft LRO will take the south pole environment, a week and a half ago. In the picture there is no sign of vikram from.

a Final judgment, however, it is not, Nasa’s any consolation. Taking pictures at the time of the Month was dusk and the shadows were deep, and Vikram could hide them. The LRO flies over the area again next month, when conditions may be better, Nasa is told.

a Soft landing on the Moon has succeeded in the Soviet union and the united states. Those flights there for decades. Five years ago it was joined by the Chinese.

Despite the soft landing went wrong, We have to Chandrayaan 2 -kuuohjelma case (switch to another service) as a whole successful. The probe is scheduled to orbit the moon for a year. The track crosses the moon of both poles.

Detailed topography surveys and mineral analyses seek to determine, inter alia, the extent to which the moon is in water molecules, Indian tell. For that purpose just the icy south pole was vikram for the carefully selected landing site.

India space administration scientists Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft construction in June in Bangalore.Jagadeesh NV / EPA-EFE

Also, the Indian government seems to trust space administration’s success: in July, india’s ministry of finance announced Its budget increase in 11%.

States and private companies interested in lunar exploration and travel is to drive a scientific passion and no longer equally policy either, as during the cold war. Momentum is the knowledge that the Moon is soaring valuable minerals, which many people would want to get to take advantage of.

for Astronomers, the Moon is now most interesting as a springboard to Mars.

lunar exploration have multiplied anniversary

the Moon landings are this year to celebrate round the year. June will mark 50 years since the first manned flight United states Apollo 11 astronauts landing on the Moon.

It was celebrated in many ways, but the first half of September went pretty much ignored over another brand day. Had been exactly six decades since the first man-made device contact of the Moon’s crust.

of the Soviet Luna 1 reached the Moon already began in 1959 but flew past the target and rotate at the moment of the Sun. In September 1959, the objective was achieved: the Luna 2 thud the Moon’s surface.

As sign days can be spent also in December. Then will mark 60 years of the day when Luna 3 peeped the first of the Month for the side that never shows to the Ground.

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