Danuri Captured India's Lunar Lander Chandrayaan 3

Ministry of Science and ICT-KARI to Release Photos on the Afternoon of the 12th

South Korea's first lunar exploration orbiter, 'Danuri,' has captured and released images of India's lunar lander Chandrayaan-3.

The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute announced on the 12th that Danuri successfully took photos of Chandrayaan-3's landing site on the 27th of last month.

These photos were taken to commemorate the successful landing of India's lunar lander Chandrayaan-3 at the lunar south pole on the 23rd of last month, the first in the world. Danuri captured the images with a high-resolution camera around 7:55 a.m. on the 27th of last month while orbiting the moon at an altitude of approximately 100 km.

Earlier, on the 28th of last month, Minister Lee Jong-ho of the Ministry of Science and ICT sent a congratulatory letter to Dr. S. Somanath, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), on the successful lunar south pole landing of Chandrayaan-3. The letter stated, "Congratulations on achieving this significant scientific milestone of landing at the lunar south pole through Chandrayaan-3, and let us strengthen the cooperation between our two countries in the space sector going forward."

Meanwhile, Danuri is scheduled to orbit the lunar mission orbit until February 2025, carrying out various scientific and technological missions such as photographing potential lunar landing sites, creating lunar surface element and mineral maps through polarization and gamma-ray observations, measuring the lunar magnetic field to study the moon's origin, and verifying space internet technology. In December, to commemorate the first anniversary of Danuri's mission, various achievements including photos of lunar landing candidate sites, five types of lunar element maps, and lunar radiation environment maps will be released.

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