<p>The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), released the first illuminated image of the moon's surface captured by Chandrayaan-2's Imaging Infrared Spectrometer (IIRS) payload, on Thursday.</p>.<p>"IIRS is designed to measure reflected sunlight from the lunar surface in narrow and contiguous spectral channels," ISRO tweeted.</p>.<p>The lunar farside in the northern hemisphere is shown in the picture, along with the Sommerfield, Stebbins and Kirkwood craters.</p>.<p>ISRO mentioned in a statement that the IIRS' main role is to decipher the "origin and evolution of the Moon in a geologic context by mapping the lunar surface mineral and volatile composition using signatures in the reflected solar spectrum".</p>.<p>IIRS can split reflected sunlight and disperses it into different spectral bands between 800 nanometer to 5000 nanometer, using a grating system.</p>.<p>Earlier, on October 4, ISRO had released a few snaps of the southern polar area of the Moon captured by the Orbiter High-Resolution Camera (OHRC) that are on-board Chandrayaan-2, of the </p>
<p>The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), released the first illuminated image of the moon's surface captured by Chandrayaan-2's Imaging Infrared Spectrometer (IIRS) payload, on Thursday.</p>.<p>"IIRS is designed to measure reflected sunlight from the lunar surface in narrow and contiguous spectral channels," ISRO tweeted.</p>.<p>The lunar farside in the northern hemisphere is shown in the picture, along with the Sommerfield, Stebbins and Kirkwood craters.</p>.<p>ISRO mentioned in a statement that the IIRS' main role is to decipher the "origin and evolution of the Moon in a geologic context by mapping the lunar surface mineral and volatile composition using signatures in the reflected solar spectrum".</p>.<p>IIRS can split reflected sunlight and disperses it into different spectral bands between 800 nanometer to 5000 nanometer, using a grating system.</p>.<p>Earlier, on October 4, ISRO had released a few snaps of the southern polar area of the Moon captured by the Orbiter High-Resolution Camera (OHRC) that are on-board Chandrayaan-2, of the </p>
