Thread by @Ramanean

Chandrayaan2's Pragyan "ROVER" intact on Moon's surface & has rolled out few metres from the skeleton Vikram lander whose payloads got disintegrated due to rough landing | More details in below tweets @isro #Chandrayaan2 #VikramLander #PragyanRover (1/4)

1.Debris I found was of Langumir probe from the Vikram lander
2. Debris NASA found might be from other payloads, antenna, retro braking engines, solar panels on side etc.,
3. Rover has rolled out from lander & has actually travelled few metres from the surface
(2/4)

South Pole region is not always well lit and the lander was in a shallow depth of 2 ms from the surface so it was not visible in Nov 11th's NASA flyby due to different angle of incidence & would be difficult for anyone to find it unless the sun is directly above the surface(3/4)

Since sun is never directly above moon's surface in that region, it would have been so difficult, the above image was taken on Jan4th, 2020 | The 1st image I tweeted is enlarged version of the below image (4/4)

NASA map link : quickmap.lroc.asu.edu/query?extent=2…

Update: It seems the commands were sent to lander blindly for days & there is a distinct possibility that lander could have received commands and relayed it to the rover.. but lander was not able to communicate it back to the earth @uncertainquark

The images I am talking about are here - github.com/Ramanean/MoonP… (Any one can download and view these pics) Cub file can viewed by PDS software and red color mark is in the PNG file

Another enhanced version of it, using normal picture techniques

If Vikram lander has crashed and completely broked into pieces , we would have got lot more debris than the current one

Liquid Engine from Vikram Lander still intact on the surface & it got disintegrated from Lander (see the below pics)

Lander from the same image but from different map projections (Jan4th,2020 image)