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]

Moon Impact Probe being integrated with Chandrayaan-1 orbiter

Moon Impact Probe being worked on before integration with orbiter

Site location

The approximate location of impact location of the probe was initially mentioned to be (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 (89.55°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.^[6]

See also

• Chandrayaan programme
• Statio Shiv Shakti
• Tiranga Point