Reportedly the window on contact with Chandrayaan 2 lander vikram has set, we have now obtained new images that give may clue to what may have happened to the lander, courtesy Nasa. Meanwhile Nasa on Friday released high-resolution images captured by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) during its flyby of the lunar region where india's ambitious Chandrayaan 2 mission attempted a soft landing near the Moon's uncharted south pole and found vikram had a hard landing.
Furthermore the module had attempted a soft landing on a small patch of lunar highland smooth plains between Simpelius N and Manzinus C craters before losing communication with ISRO on September 7. Perhaps according to the US space agency the site was about 600 km from the south Pole in a relatively ancient terrain. NASA said "vikram had a hard landing and the precise location of the spacecraft in the lunar highlands has yet to be determined".
Furthermore the scene was captured from a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Quickmap fly-around of the targeted landing site image width is about 150 kilometres across the centre. Apparently ISRO had said the mission life of the vikram lander and the Pragyan rover it carried will be one lunar day, which is equal to 14 Earth days.
