Somewhere In This Photograph Of The Surface Of The Moon,

there is a very expensive piece of metal,

that piece of metal that carried India’s hopes of lunar science, this image was captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of NASA on September 17, as it went over the target landing site of the Chandrayaan-2 mission, that project's lander, dubbed Vikram, fell silent in the final minutes of its touchdown procedure on Sept. 6. The India Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which oversees the mission, spent two weeks trying to establish communications with the lander, ISRO has said it was able to spot the lander with the orbiter component of the Chandrayaan-2 mission, but the agency has not released those photographs, NASA wanted to help the effort, but LRO's angle on the scene was suboptimal during its first flyover of the targeted landing site after the attempt, if you are interested in finding the lander head over to Space.com to find where the missing moon lander is, photograph NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University, as an aside, in July India's finance ministry announced that it wished to increase ISRO's budget by 11 percent from $1.5bn to $1.75bn, I am glad to see that India can continue to go into space, despite this minor set back, I remember when space was all the rage in those exciting times of the Golden Age of space exploration, hopefully India will continue the quest it has in space.