NASA photographs found no sign of Vikram, India's first lunar lander which is presumed to have crashed on the moon.
The fate of India's unmanned moon lander, Vikram, is still shrouded in mystery as a NASA scan of the area revealed no new clues. Vikram veered from its landing sequence 2.1 kilometers from the moon's surface before losing contact with the Indian Space Research Organisation . A hard landing is suspected.
The lander was part of the Chandrayaan-2 project and, had it been successful, would have made India the fourth country to have landed on the moon.reports that Vikram was supposed to land near the south pole of the moon, an area no previous mission had explored. This area is of interest because portions of the craters there are constantly in shadow. There could even be water in the form of ice in those craters.
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