GOOD NEWS FROM : CHANDRAYAAN 2
Chandrayaan 2 : Only with his Laptop and the Internet connection, he worked for 7 to 8 hours daily.
Shanmuga Subramanian, an engineer from Chennai who has been credited by NASA after he alerted them about the presence of the debris of the lander of Chandrayaan 2, said he had alerted both the US space agency and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
"I did send a tweet to NASA and ISRO. I sent emails to a couple of NASA scientists. They were in charge of the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) images. I got a good response from them," Mr Subramanian
Earlier ISRO had lost contact with the lander Vikram on September 6 when it tried to make soft-landing near the south pole of moon. A successful soft-landing on the moon's surface would have made India the fourth - after the United States, Russia and China - to achieve the milestone.
Shanmuga Subramanian, an engineer from Chennai who has been credited by NASA after he alerted them about the presence of the debris of the lander of Chandrayaan 2, said he had alerted both the US space agency and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
"I did send a tweet to NASA and ISRO. I sent emails to a couple of NASA scientists. They were in charge of the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) images. I got a good response from them," Mr Subramanian
Earlier ISRO had lost contact with the lander Vikram on September 6 when it tried to make soft-landing near the south pole of moon. A successful soft-landing on the moon's surface would have made India the fourth - after the United States, Russia and China - to achieve the milestone.
Armed with just his laptop and an internet connection, Mr Subramanian said he worked for up to seven hours every day in his Chennai apartment in his mission to locate the lander. "I narrowed my search to 2 square kilometres. I used only a laptop and searched all the images," he said.
"Is This Vikram Lander? (1 Km From The Landing Spot) Lander Might Have Been Buried In Lunar Sand?" Mr Subramanian had tweeted on October 3, tagging NASA and ISRO. On November 17, he tweeted more details with two images of the crash site.
NASA said it released a mosaic image of the site on September 26 (but taken on September 17), inviting the public to compare it with images of the same area before the crash to find signs of the lander.
Mr Subramaniam was first person to come up with a positive identification. He said NASA's inability to find the lander on its own had sparked his interest.
It's quite big but it is a little sad at the same time because we all expected Vikram to land on the surface. I hope ISRO will again have a successful Chandrayaan 3 and they will be able to land on moon next time," he told.
Mr Subramanian is from Madurai and works in the IT sector, at a multinational firm. He is an engineering graduate from the Govt. Engineering College in Tirunelvelli. His story inspire many amateurs to do something like it.
KUDOS Mr. Subramanian salute you for your great job.
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