Launched on July 22, Isro has successfully carried out the fourth of the five planned orbit-raising manoeuvre of Chandryaan-2. While Indians are eagerly waiting for the spacecraft to land on moon, Isro decided to treat people with something special – images of Earth as viewed by #Chandrayaan2.
The space agency took to Twitter to share some images. Take a look at the images of our green and blue planet.
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Earth as viewed by #Chandrayaan2 LI4 Camera on August 3, 2019 17:37 UT pic.twitter.com/8N7c8CROjy— ISRO (@isro) August 4, 2019
Earth viewed by #Chandryaan2 from 5000km altitude 😍😍 pic.twitter.com/rZp1nbVSGj
— 🅅🄸🄽🄰🅈 🅅🄴🅁🄼🄰 (@Vinay___Verma) August 4, 2019
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First set of beautiful images of the Earth captured by #Chandrayaan2 #VikramLander
Earth as viewed by #Chandrayaan2 LI4 Camera on August 3, 2019 17:28 UT pic.twitter.com/pLIgHHfg8I— ISRO (@isro) August 4, 2019
It didn’t take long for people to shower all kinds of comments on the images. While some simply wrote ‘proud’ on the comments section, there were a few who couldn’t help but wonder at Earth’s beauty.
“The best gift to 1.3 billion people from ISRO,” wrote a Twitter user. “It’s so beautiful I’ll go crazy,” commented another. “Wow… amazing. Thanks to ISRO,” tweeted a third.
Awesome view from prestigious Indian mission CY-2.
— Lakshmipathi (@lveluru) August 4, 2019
Keep us amazed Chandryaan 2 and team ISRO. Respect and proud
— Swatantar Kumar (@sawi_mpi) August 4, 2019
Previously, a few images went viral on social media with the claim that they are taken by Chandrayaan-2. However, that claim later turned out to be incorrect.
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