While the NASA, the American Space agency and its Indian counterpart ISRO have been sieving the south pole of the Moon to locate the site of Vikram Lander that had tragically lost its signal during its descent trajectory on the moon's surface for the past three months, the Chennai based techie has come into the spotlight after he surpassed the space agencies in discovering the debris of the Vikram Lander and its crash site.

Shanmuga Subramanian, a software architect in Chennai has certainly concluded the search mission by helping the US Space Agency NASA in spotting the debris through the images that were captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbital camera before and after the final trajectory, which was released by the agency. 

The Chennai techie has contacted the NASA's team and cited a tip-off through the images on the possible identification of the debris of the Vikram Lander and the crash site. NASA has stated that the team has officially confirmed the identification and as the crash site of Vikram Lander by comparing the images taken before and after the lander's signal was reportedly lost. After his week-long work, Shanmuga Subramanian has located the debris that was about 750 meters northwest of the main crash site.

The #Chandrayaan2 Vikram lander has been found by our @NASAMoon mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. See the first mosaic of the impact site https://t.co/GA3JspCNuh pic.twitter.com/jaW5a63sAf

— NASA (@NASA) December 2, 2019

NASA has released the image through its official twitter handle by captioning the image as the Vikram Lander. Subramanian told IANS on Tuesday "it was something challenging as even NASA can't find out so why can't we try out? And that 's the thought that led me to search for Vikram Lander". The Project Scientist of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbital Noah Petro has said that the story of Shanmuga Subramanian, who found it, was awesome and further stated that Subramanian is totally independent of the team, independent of the Chandrayaan 2 team but, through his interest in the Chadrayaan 2 lunar mission, he has helped the agency to locate the debris of the lander.

@NASA has credited me for finding Vikram Lander on Moon's surface#VikramLander #Chandrayaan2@timesofindia @TimesNow @NDTV pic.twitter.com/2LLWq5UFq9

— Shan (@Ramanean) December 2, 2019

India would have become the fourth nation in successfully hitting the moon and would have become the first country to reach the south pole of the moon but on September, during the descent trajectory, the Vikram lander, which carried the rover, had eventually lost its communication with Earth while it was above 2.1 km altitude of the moon's surface.

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