Indian Space Research Organisation's (Isro) Chandrayaan-2 has sent first pictures of Earth as viewed in space. In a series of tweets, Isro shared the Earth's pictures clicked by LI4 Camera of Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander on August 3, 2019.
India's second mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-2 took off from the launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on 22 July, after it missed its first launch window on 15 July.
As on Sunday, the module is revolving around the earth in an orbit of 277 x 89472 km. The images were captured on Saturday at around 5:30 pm, and shows the earth as a beautiful blue marble with white swirls of clouds hanging over it and some shades of green and brown indicating the land surface.
Indian Space Research Organisation's (Isro) Chandrayaan-2 has sent first pictures of Earth as viewed in space. In a series of tweets, Isro shared the Earth's pictures clicked by LI4 Camera of Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander on August 3, 2019.
India's second mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-2 took off from the launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on 22 July, after it missed its first launch window on 15 July.
As on Sunday, the module is revolving around the earth in an orbit of 277 x 89472 km. The images were captured on Saturday at around 5:30 pm, and shows the earth as a beautiful blue marble with white swirls of clouds hanging over it and some shades of green and brown indicating the land surface.
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