The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) yesterday took to Twitter to share the first pictures of Earth captured by the LI4 camera installed in Chandrayaan-2.
The space agency also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will watch the moon landing of the lander Vikram carried by Chandrayaan-2.
Two students studying in classes 8 to 10 from each state scoring the highest in a quiz contest organised by ISRO in co-ordination with MyGov.in too can watch Vikram’s landing along with Modi at the space agency’s Bengaluru centre, it said.
The Vikram is expected to land on the moon on September 7.
The online quiz to be held between August 10 and 20 is for students to create awareness about space programmes, ISRO said.
Participants for the contest have to create an account on www.MyGov.in.
The contest is open only to Indian citizens.
The criteria for selection of winners will be the maximum correct answers in the shortest time.
The quiz duration will be five minutes and the number of questions will be 20.
Meanwhile on Friday, the fourth orbit raising activity for the spacecraft was performed successfully at 3.27pm, the ISRO said.
The orbit was raised to 277x89,472km by firing the onboard motors for 646 seconds, it said, adding that all spacecraft parameters were normal.
The fifth orbit raising manoeuvre is scheduled between 2.30pm and 3.30pm on August 6.
The Chandrayaan-2 was injected into an elliptical orbit on July 22 the by India’s heavy lift rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV Mk III) in a text book style.
The spacecraft comprises three segments - the orbiter (weighing 2,379kg, eight payloads), the lander Vikram (1,471kg, four payloads) and rover Pragyan (27kg, two payloads).