Credit: ISRO

A small probe launched from the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) craft Chandrayaan-1, now in orbit around the Moon, slammed into the Shackleton crater close to the Moon's south pole on 14 November. The probe, about 40 centimetres wide, sported the Indian flag painted on its sides and collected data during the descent that ISRO says will help to plan a future landing mission. Chandrayaan-1, India's first unmanned lunar mission, will circle 100 kilometres above the Moon's surface for the next two years. This image was taken by its Terrain Mapping Camera from lunar orbit the day after releasing its impactor probe, and shows the bright rim of the 117-kilometre-wide Moretus crater at the Moon's south pole.