ISRO releases pictures of the moon taken by Chandrayaan-2
The spacecraft is scheduled to land on the moon on September 7.

The Indian Space Research Organisation on Monday released latest pictures of the moon taken by its spacecraft Chandrayaan-2. In a statement, ISRO said the photographs captured are those of the craters Somerfeld, Kirkwood, Jackson, Mach, Korolev, Mitra, Plaskett, Rozhdestvenskiy and Hermite.
India has named Crater Mitra after Professor Kumar Mitra, an Indian physicist and Padma Bhushan recipient.
ISRO said the images were taken on August 23 by the Terrain Mapping Camera-2 of Chandrayaan-2 from a distance of about 4,375 kilometres. The space agency had on August 22 released the first picture. The agency identified two significant moon landmarks on the image – Apollo crater and Mare Orientale basin.
Chandrayaan-2 was launched into space on July 22. On August 20, it successfully entered the lunar orbit. The spacecraft is scheduled to land on the moon on September 7 after the lander’s separation from the Orbiter on September 2.
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— ISRO (@isro) August 26, 2019
Lunar surface imaged by Terrain Mapping Camera-2(TMC-2) of #Chandrayaan2 on August 23 at an altitude of about 4375 km showing craters such as Jackson, Mach, Korolev and Mitra (In the name of Prof. Sisir Kumar Mitra)
For more images please visit https://t.co/ElNS4qIBvh pic.twitter.com/T31bFh102v
Take a look at the first Moon image captured by #Chandrayaan2 #VikramLander taken at a height of about 2650 km from Lunar surface on August 21, 2019.
— ISRO (@isro) August 22, 2019
Mare Orientale basin and Apollo craters are identified in the picture.#ISRO pic.twitter.com/ZEoLnSlATQ