ISRO Shares 3D Picture of Vikram Lander

On August 23rd, India’s Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the moon’s South Pole. It became a historic achievement for the country, especially after the disappointment of Chandrayaan-2’s crash landing four years ago.

People have been requesting more pictures of the moon’s surface since Chandrayaan 3’s secure landing on the Moon. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has been sharing images regularly, but they recently did something unique. 

On September 5th, ISRO shared a fascinating 3D image of Chandrayaan 3’s Vikram lander on Twitter. This is an anaglyph picture which shows the stunning features of the South Pole of the moon. ISRO has defined anaglyph as a way of visualizing objects in three dimensions using filters. To view these images properly, you will need 3D red and cyan glasses. ISRO used the NavCam Stereo on board to capture both left and right images, which were then used to create the anaglyph. The images were taken by the Pragyan Rover.

To create an anaglyph picture, the same image is taken from two different angles. One of the images is coloured in red and the other in cyan. The pictures are then placed on top of each other and viewed with red and cyan 3D glasses.