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Future of ISRO's Vikram Lander and Chandrayan

The Indian Space Research Organization's ambitious Lunar mission spacecraft Chandrayaan 2 may have lost contact with the lander Vikram, but the agency has many hopes for the future. ISRO Chief K Sivan has told that Vikram could not be contacted, but the orbiter is doing his job properly. He has told that a national committee is investigating what went wrong and plans will be made about the future when its report comes.

What happened with ISRO Vikram Lander

   Last Friday, India became the latest Nation to learn that firsthand when they lost contact with their spacecraft right before it landed on the Moon. 

In fact, the Soviet Union failed eleven timesbefore achieving the first successful landing in 1966. And earlier this year, an Israeli lander failed in almost exactly the same way Vikram mayhave. So even if they never get in contact withtheir lander, the ISRO team isn’t alone in this. And fortunately, no matter what happens, Chandrayaan-2 also won’t be a total loss. 

The orbiter is doing great, and ISRO expectsit will continue to study the Moon for as many as seven years. In that time, its instruments will study thethin lunar atmosphere and the Moon’s water, and its camera will snap some really high-resolutionphotos. According to ISRO, that camera is actuallythe highest-resolution one ever sent to orbit the Moon, and it’s capable of taking pictures of objectsjust 32 centimeters across. 

That will be great for studying features onthe surface — and maybe even helping ISRO diagnose what happened during last week’s landing. Missions are an awesome way to learn aboutthe solar system, but we don’t always need to go to spaceto learn something about it. Sometimes, meteors come crashing to Earth, bringing new information and the chance fornew discoveries. 

And that’s something another team of scientists has been celebrating lately! In the journal American Mineralogist, a team from Caltech recently published theirstudy of the Wedderburn meteorite, which was discovered in Australia in 1951.

 It’s a cool red and black rock, but the researchers confirmed something specialabout it: It contains a new, naturally-occurring mineral! That find came with a pretty nifty perk, too: They got to name it! By rule, only minerals known to exist in natureget their own proper names. 

So even though scientists have seen this onein smelters for decades, it’s always been called by its chemicalformula. The team chose to call this mineral edscottite, after the American scientist Ed Scott. 

Who first proposed the mineral exist in theWedderburn meteorite. At the time, though, instruments weren’tadvanced enough for Scott to confirm the mineral was there, so that’s where this new research came in. 

The team from Caltech examined their sample using methods like scanning electron microscopy, which uses a beam of electrons, rather than light Those images revealed tiny pieces of edscottitesquished between other minerals. And the images were detailed enough for theteam to study the mineral’s structure and finally confirm Scott’s hypothesis fromdecades earlier. As for how the mineral got there? Well, it may have been surprisingly similar to how it’s made in smelters on Earth.

 Wedderburn is an iron meteorite, which means it was most likely part of thecore of a large asteroid or small planet. This object likely formed early in the solar system when a bunch of smaller rocks got crunched together.

 All those collisions would have added a lotof heat to the object, which would have helped its molten metal sink towards the center to form a core. “Hot metal” also sounds a lot like theconditions inside a smelter, so it all kind of fits together. Still, think about how amazing that is: A piece of an asteroid or planet that hasn’texisted for millions or billions of years somehow ended up on Earth. And now, we get to study it. 

The researchers aren’t positive why edscottite hasn’t been found in other iron meteorites, so there are more questions to be answered here. But whatever the reason, it’s pretty cool that something first found as industrial waste turns out to be part of the solar system’s building blocks.  

Summary - Significantly, on September 9, Vikram Lander was to have a soft landing on 

the south pole of the moon, but he lost contact with ISRO just 2 km before the surface. Lander's life was only 14 days. In such a situation, the expectations of contact with him were also reduced

Chief K. Shivan experience with Vikram Lander

Sivan has told on Thursday that Chandrayaan 2's orbiter is working properly. All the payload operations have started and are working well. He said that we have not received any signal from the lander but the orbiter is working well. A national committee is now reviewing what seven of the lander went wrong. Maybe after submitting the report of the committee, we can work on future plans. Please tell that earlier on Wednesday, Sivan met President Ram Nath Kovind.

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