Jawahar Point or Jawahar Sthal is the site near the

Shackleton Crater Shackleton is an impact crater that lies at the lunar south pole. The peaks along the crater's rim are exposed to almost continual sunlight, while the interior is permanently shadowed crater, perpetually in shadow. The low-temperature interior of ...

where the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) of the

Chandrayaan-1 Chandrayaan-1 (; from Sanskrit: , "Moon" and , "craft, vehicle") was the first Indian lunar probe under the Chandrayaan programme. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in October 2008, and operated until August 200 ...

hard landed on lunar surface on 14 November 2008. The name was reportedly suggested by India's former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam as the MIP touched the Moon on the birth anniversary of India's first prime minister

Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a pr ...

Site location

The approximate location of impact location of the probe was initially mentioned to be () but it was later refined to the Earth-facing slope of the connecting ridge between Shackleton (crater) and

De Gerlache (crater) de Gerlache is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that is located along the southern limb of the Moon, within a crater diameter of Shackleton (crater), Shackleton at the Lunar south pole, south pole. From the Earth this crater is seen from the ...

near () 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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Indian lunar exploration programme Monuments and memorials to Jawaharlal Nehru 2008 on the Moon 2008 in spaceflight 2008 in India {{Moon-stub

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