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posted by chromas on Monday September 09 2019, @08:40AM   Printer-friendly

The lander module from India's moon mission was located on the lunar surface on Sunday, one day after it lost contact with the space station, and efforts are underway to try to establish contact with it, the head of the nation's space agency said.

The Press Trust of India news agency cited Indian Space and Research Organization chairman K. Sivan as saying cameras from the moon mission's orbiter had located the lander. "It must have been a hard landing," PTI quoted Sivan as saying.

[...] The space agency said it lost touch with the Vikram lunar lander on Saturday as it made its final approach to the moon's south pole to deploy a rover to search for signs of water.

A successful landing would have made India just the fourth country to land a vessel on the lunar surface, and only the third to operate a robotic rover there.

The space agency said Saturday that the lander's descent was normal until 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the lunar surface.

Previously: Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @10:23PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @10:23PM (#891908)

    GTR describes the effect (due to the distortion of space-time) we call "gravity" so precisely

    Did you miss the supposed 95% of the universe made solely of invisible stuff required for GTR to get the right answer? Stuff that after spending tens to hundreds of billions of dollars looking is still only detectable as deviations from what GTR predicts?

    Einsteins model works fine for the solar system but fell apart as soon as people started observing other galaxies.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 10 2019, @08:00AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 10 2019, @08:00AM (#892123)

    Then what alternative do you propose and how does it explain the cosmic background radiation's anisotropy?

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 10 2019, @03:47PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday September 10 2019, @03:47PM (#892247)

      Apparently MOND [wikipedia.org] has done a fairly good job explaining some things.

      Obviously it still has some problems, but then again so does dark matter.

      --
      "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"