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Chandrayaan 2’s landing failure and the road ahead
What does Vikram’s failed landing mean for India's future in space?
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Cone-shaped material flows on the Moon
Earth-like Talus cones in the crater of Pytheas.
Huge, peak-ringed Apollo crater
Seen here is the huge Apollo crater on the Moon's farside, named after the incredibly successful Apollo landing missions. The crater of Apollo is crowned with an inner mountain ring, do you see it? If not, you're not alone! Since its formation over 3.9 billion
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The tiniest of impact craters [Guest post]
Small meteorites constantly bombard the Moon and create micro-sized craters.
A peak at Hadley
Seen here the 4 kilometers tall and 25 kilometers wide Haldey mountain as captured from orbit by Apollo 15. Mons Hadley is part of a geologically rich area on the Moon. A lava-carved channel rests besides the mountain, near which the Apollo 15 astronauts landed. Hadley itself is part of
The central mountain of Bullialdus and finding water on it
Seen here is the central mountain of the crater Bullialdus. Its composition offers a peak (pun intended) into the lunar interior. Much like the case of Tycho, the central mountain of Bullialdus is formed by an asteroid impact. The impact melted and compressed the Moon's crustal material at
The crowned crater of Schrödinger
The best preserved large impact basin on the Moon.
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I saw a rocket launch!
My experience at ISRO's Launch View Gallery.
Reading menu: Apollo landing sites (and candidates) and their geology
Here is a curated collection of my articles and blog posts on several Apollo landing sites, site candidates, and their geology. Places on the Moon explored by Apollo astronauts and what we learnt from them Apollo 11 landing site – The Sea of Tranquility Then there's the Apollo 15
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Chandrayaan 2, India’s first mission to attempt a Moon landing
The complexity and cost of a robotic lunar landing mission is enormous; only three countries have been successful so far.
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Chandrayaan 2 landing site in the southern highlands
Seen here is the targeted landing region for India's first ever soft landing Moon mission, Chandrayaan 2. The spacecraft will launch on July 15, 2019. Chandrayaan-2's lander will touchdown in the highland (rocky) plain between the craters Manzinus C and Simpelius N. Apart from a number
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Gravity assist: The simple physics trick that’s allowed humanity to explore deep space
How did the NASA Voyager spacecraft escape the Solar system?
