This goes out to all the people who scour strange sites on the internet to solve mysteries: An Indian programmer helped NASA find India's lost Vikram moon lander in his spare time. @kchangnyt emailed with @ramanean about his #chandrayaan2 discovery:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/science/india-moon-mission-vikram-lander-found.html …
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Shouldn't the NYT headline be: Indian Amateur finds India's Vikram Moon Lander Crash Site, with NASA's Help and not the other way around? "Mr. Shanmuga reported what he had found to NASA ...... who confirmed his finding"
Shan did fantastic detective work locating a piece of the debris. But he also couldn't tell for certain what it was. The LRO camera people took that crucial clue and found the impact site, which was 750 meters away.
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