Chandrayaan-3 Lander Instrument Now A Location Marker At Lunar South Pole

According to NASA, a laser beam was transmitted and reflected between its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Vikram lander for the first time on the lunar surface.

The US space agency said that this successful experiment opens the door to a new style of precisely locating targets on the moon’s surface.

“At 3 p.m. EST on Dec. 12, 2023, NASA’s LRO pointed its laser altimeter instrument toward Vikram. The lander was 62 miles, or 100 kilometers, away from LRO, near Manzinus crater in the moon’s south pole region, when LRO transmitted laser pulses toward it. After the orbiter registered light that had bounced back from a tiny NASA retroreflector aboard Vikram, NASA scientists knew their technique had finally worked,” NASA stated.