Images from ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2: How did craters get names like ‘mitra’? | Explained News, The Indian Express

Images from ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2: How did craters get names like ‘mitra’? | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |New Delhi |Updated: August 27, 2019 7:13:37 am

Images from ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2: How did craters get names like ‘mitra’?

The first attempts at naming lunar craters date back to the 17th century, K B Shingareva and G A Burba write in their book The Lunar Nomenclature: The Reverse Side of the Moon, 1961-1973.

The pictures clicked from an altitude of 4,375 km shows impacts craters such as Jackson, Mitra (named after an Indian physicist), Mach and Korolev. (Source: ISRO)

On Monday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released images of the lunar surface captured from the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft orbiting the Moon.