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'Spotting Vikram on moon challenge when NASA couldn't' (IANS Interview)

‘Spotting Vikram on moon challenge when NASA couldn’t’ (IANS Interview)

New York, Dec 3 (IANS) Shanmuga Subramanian, the eagle-eyed citizen space scientist who found Vikram moonlander said on Tuesday that he took spotting it as a challenge when NASA couldn’t.

He said in an email interview to IANS: “It was something challenging as even NASA can’t find out so why can’t we try out? And that’s the thought that led me to search for Vikram lander.”

Subramanian, who works…

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Chandraayan's moon lander may be 'hiding in shadow': NASA

Chandraayan’s moon lander may be ‘hiding in shadow’: NASA

New York, Sep 27 (IANS) NASA has not been able to locate Chandraayan’s moon lander Vikram in pictures taken by an American lunar orbiter and the agency said it was probably hiding in long shadows.

NASA said on Thursday that when its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) passed over Vikram’s landing site on September 17 and took high resolution images of the area it was dusk “and thus large shadows…

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