Category: Inner Solar System

India Finds Vikram Lander on Moon with Attempts to Make Contact In Progress

TITUSVILLE, FL –  Indian scientists have found the location of their ambitious Vikram lunar lander on the Moon’s surface this weekend via imaging from their Chandrayaan-2 orbiting mothership – after it was feared lost when contact was lost on Friday, Sept. 6  in the final moments of descent for India’s first attempt to soft land a robotic probe on the Moon’s rugged surface in a