Chandrayaan 3 Landing: 57 years ago on this day the first picture of the earth was taken from the moon, have you seen it?

NASA's Lunar Orbiter-1 was the first mission that took a picture of the Earth from the Moon's orbit, the special thing is that the picture of the Earth from the Moon was also taken on the date of August 23, ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 is also on August 23. Who is going to land on the south pole of the moon.

Chandrayaan-3's Vikram Lander will create history by soft landing on the moon at 6:40 pm today. With this, once again the date of August 23 will be recorded in those pages of history which will remind the coming future of that golden period when for the first time a country has stepped on the south pole of the moon.

If seen in the field of Moon Mission, August 23 has its own special importance, you will be surprised to know that August 23 is the date when 57 years ago in 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter One took the picture of the Earth for the first time from the Moon. Of course, this picture was partially blurred and black and white, but it was such a success in the history of Moon missions that paved the way for future Moon missions.

What was NASA's Lunar Orbiter-1 mission

Lunar Orbiter-1 was the first Moon mission of NASA which successfully reached the Moon's orbit. This mission was launched on 10 August 1966. Which was a surveyor mission. Its purpose was to find a safe landing site for NASA's future Apollo missions, Lunar Orbiter-1 was designed in such a way that it could take as many pictures of the moon as possible.

Two pictures of the earth were taken from the moon's orbit

Lunar-Orbiter-1 went up to 58 km from the Moon's surface. It carried out its photographic mission from 18 to 29 August 1966 and took 42 high resolution and 187 medium resolution photographs covering an area of ​​more than 5 million square kilometers of the Moon. There were also two pictures of the earth in these, which were taken for the first time from the orbit of the moon.

Earth's picture was taken on August 23

The picture taken by Lunar Orbiter-1 from the Moon's orbit was released by NASA on 25 August. This picture was taken by Orbiter-1 on 23 August, on 24 August it reached the ground station of NASA in Spain. On August 25, announcing the success of the mission, NASA first released this picture, which was published in newspapers and magazines on August 26, 1966.

This was the purpose of the mission

The main task of the Lunar Orbiter launched by NASA was to find a landing site for NASA's future Moon missions. That is why this mission was named Surveyor. It was from this mission that NASA detected meteorites in the moon's atmosphere. Apart from this, information was received about the Moon's atmosphere and its gravity and physical properties.