On 26 September, twenty days after the Vikram lander encountered a hard landing on the surface of the moon, NASA released a mosaic image of the site and invited the public to search it for the signs of the lander.
Just about a week later, on 3 October, Shanmuga Subramanian, a Chennai-based mechanical engineer tagged the handles of NASA, its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and ISRO in a tweet, asking a rather innocuous-looking question, “Is this Vikram lander?”
All it took Subramanian to reach his conclusion was absence of a white spot on the lunar surface in its old images.
‘No One Knows About Me’
In his blog, Subramanian describes himself as “I am a Blogger, Coder Photographer and a Nerd who dabbles with wide array of interests like Travelling, Space, Philosophy, Politics etc.”
A cursory glance on the blog and one would find DYI hacks like “How to receive FM on your Laptop without Internet” and “How to import multiple Google fonts in a Webpage.”
As he basks in his new-found glory, it probably is time to update his Facebook bio, which still reads, “No one knows about me.”
Source – The Quint
