Shiv Shakti, Tiranga, Jawahar Sthal

Shiv Shakti, Tiranga, Jawahar Sthal

1. The touch down sites of spacecrafts send to the lunar surface has been named recently.
2. After Chandrayaan-1 mission of 2008, the site where the probe crashed (as it was meant to for the purposes of the mission), was named “Jawahar Sthal” after the first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
3. Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down site on the lunar surface has been named Shiv Shakti.
4. The next mission to the moon-touch down site shall be named Tiranga.
5. As moon does not come under the jurisdiction of any country, India has every right to name the landing site.
6. The International Astronomical Union (IAU), India is one among the 92 members, determines rules for Space activities including being an arbiter of planetary and satellite nomenclature since its inception in 1919.
7. The earliest Moon maps were created in the 17th century by Italian astronomers Grimaldi and Riccioli stands as the foundation for the official naming reference guide on moon.