Jawahar Point

Jawahar Point or Jawahar Sthal is the site near the Shackleton Crater where the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) of the Chandrayaan-1 hard landed on lunar surface on 14 November 2008.

[1] The name was reportedly suggested by India's former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam[2] as the MIP touched the Moon on the birth anniversary of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

[3][4] The approximate location of impact location of the probe was initially mentioned to be (89°46′S 39°24′W / 89.76°S 39.40°W / -89.76; -39.40)[5] but it was later refined to the Earth-facing slope of the connecting ridge between Shackleton (crater) and De Gerlache (crater) near (89°33′S 122°56′W / 89.55°S 122.93°W / -89.55; -122.93) by matching images from MIP camera to LROC NAC image mosaic.

The exact location of MIP impact point is not known.

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