Space.com
By Andrew Jones
August 21, 2023
India’s Chandrayaan-3 probe has been testing out its landing optics by imaging the far side of the moon.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released the images via X, the social media service formerly named Twitter, on Monday (Aug. 21).
The series of four Chandrayaan-3 images were taken on Saturday (Aug. 19) and show a range of geological features, including vast impact craters that cast varying degrees of shadows and lunar mare, or “seas” of cooled moon lava.