Prime Minister Jitendra Singh’s Minister of State said that as Sarabhai completed his seventeenth birthday on August 12, this is a thanksgiving tribute to the scientist.
Singh admitted that the recent achievements of ISRO, which have placed India as a frontline nation of the world, are a justification for Sarabhai’s visionary dream.
The space department comes directly under the office of the Prime Minister.
“The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has sought to pay homage to him in a special way by announcing that Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter’s the Moon images of ‘Crater of Sarabhai‘,’ said the statement quoting Singh.
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The Sarabhai Crater is located about 250 to 300 kilometers east of the crater where the Apollo 17 and Luna 21 missions were.
The statement said the Sarabhai crater, captured in 3D images, shows that it has a depth of about 1.7 kilometers from its elevated edge and the slope of crater walls is between 25 to 35 degrees. These findings will help space scientists further understand the process on the land region filled with lava.
“Chandrayaan-2 will continue to be implemented as per design and provide valuable scientific data. The public release of Chandrayaan-2 scientific data for worldwide use will begin in October 2020,” it added.
Planned to land at the South Pole of the moon, Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22nd. However, the landlord Vikram landed hard on September 7, crashing India’s dream of becoming the first nation to successfully land on the moon in his girl.
The mission orbiter is working fine and has sent data.
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