The Indian Space Research Organization on Monday released a fresh set of photographs of the surface of the moon and its craters taken by the Terrain Mapping Camera-2 of the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft. According to ISRO, the pictures were taken on August 23 at an altitude of about 4,375 km showing impact craters like Jackson, Mitra, Mach, and Korolev.

ISRO said Jackson is an impact crater located in the northern hemisphere of the far side of the Moon. The crater’s diameter is 71 km. The interesting feature of the Mach crater is another impact crater named Mitra (92 km in diameter).

“It is named after Prof. Sisir Kumar Mitra, who was an Indian physicist and Padma Bhushan recipient known for his pioneering work in the field of ionosphere and radiophysics,” ISRO said.

• ISRO said that the pictures were taken by Chandrayaan-2 on August 23 at an altitude of about 4,375 km showing impact craters like Jackson, Mitra, Mach, and Korolev

The Korolev crater seen in the image is a 437-km wide crater which has several small craters of varying sizes. ISRO also released pictures showing impact craters such as Sommerfeld and Kirkwood. Sommerfeld is a large impact crater located in the farside northern latitudes of the Moon. It is a 169 km in diameter. It has a relatively flat interior surrounded by a ring mountain. 

The crater is named after Dr. Arnold Sommerfeld, a pioneering German physicist in the field of atomic and quantum physics. Northeast of this crater lies the Kirkwood crater named after American astronomer Daniel Kirkwood, another well-formed impact crater which is approximately 68 km in diameter, ISRO said. Another picture was that of impact craters Plaskett (109 km wide), Rozhdestvensky (177 km wide) and Hermite (104 km wide).

Previously, on August 4, ISRO shared the first pictures of Earth captured by the LI4 camera installed in Chandrayaan-2.

—Zee Media Newsroom