The Indian Research Space Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday (October 17) released the first image of the surface of the moon captured by the imaging infrared Spectrometer (IIRS) playload on-board Chandrayaan 2.
“See the first illuminated image of the lunar surface acquired by #Chandrayaan2’s IIRS payload. IIRS is designed to measure reflected sunlight from the lunar surface in narrow and contiguous spectral channels,” ISRO tweeted along with the picture.
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See the first illuminated image of the lunar surface acquired by #Chandrayaan2’s IIRS payload. IIRS is designed to measure reflected sunlight from the lunar surface in narrow and contiguous spectral channels.For details visit:https://t.co/C3STg4H79S pic.twitter.com/95N2MpebY4
— ISRO (@isro) October 17, 2019
The image covers part of the lunar farside in the northern hemisphere. A few prominent craters (Sommerfield, Stebbins and Kirkwood) are seen in the image.
The IIRS on-board Chandrayaan-2 is designed to measure the reflected sunlight and emitted part of Moonlight from the lunar surface in narrow and contiguous spectral channels (bands) ranging from ~800 – 5000 nanometre (0.8-5.0 micrometre (um)), ISRO said in a statement.
