The Indian Space Agency published and almost immediately deleted a photo of its station on the moon (6 photos)

What secrets are they hiding there?





Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) showed from the orbit of the Earth's satellite a photograph of a successfully landing apparatus of the mission "Chandrayan-3", but soon removed it. It caused a lot of speculation among netizens, especially since ISRO does not explained the hasty deletion of a unique snapshot.

Orbiter High Resolution Camera "Chandrayan-2" currently has the best resolution of all, around the moon," ISRO captioned the picture.



The picture was deleted a few minutes after publication, but many people managed to copy it, including journalists

Netizens began to wonder why ISRO hid the photo of the descent vehicle on the moon: was it publication inconsistent with the leadership or in the space agency afraid that people will see something secret in the picture?

Meanwhile, Photoshop enthusiasts decided to answer these questions by making pictures full of stereotypes about Indians.





Some believe that on the Vikram lander, if take a closer look, you can see passengers who confused the train with spacecraft.

Jokes aside, but "Chandrayan-3" is safe and sound and will soon time will begin exploration of the South Pole of the Moon, where they have not yet landed on the moon devices from other countries.



Or hide a cow

Recall that the successful landing of the Vikram descent module to the surface of the moon took place on Wednesday, August 23. And this date will be included in history of Indian astronautics: India is now officially the fourth "lunar power" after the USSR, the USA and China.

The first lunar mission "Chandrayan-1" was launched into orbit Moon in November 2008. Landing she did not expect - automatic the station worked in Earth satellite orbit for a year and a half and stopped its existence. On July 22, 2019, ISRO sent Chandrayaan 2 to the Moon. already with the lander, but the device crashed while trying to land. At the same time, the Chandrayaan-2 orbital station continues to work on the lunar orbit and sends pictures to Earth, it was from it that photos were taken lander of the Chandrayaan-3 mission.



And maybe a dance duet



According to the Americans, this is what the Indian lunar rover looks like, which they decided not to show for the time being