Shanmuga Subramanian, a techie from Chennai who helped in locating the crashed Vikram lander on Moon, said that he spent many nights probing a picture of the impact site shared by NASA.

A NASA satellite orbiting the Moon has found the crashed Vikram lander on the Moon, the US Space Agency said.

In yet another development about the crashed Vikram lander from Chandrayaan 2, the information has been provided that it touched down moon's surface within the range of 500 meters of the assigned target location.

ISRO chief K Sivan attended IIT-Delhi 50th convocation ceremony on Saturday and said that his team is now looking forward to attempt Vikram lander's second landing on Moon's South Pole, after first could not be achieved successfully.

The images have been clicked from an altitude of 100 km, the space agency said. It covered a part of Boguslawsky E crater (named after a German astronomer), which lies in the southern polar region of Moon.

The high resolution images of the landing site have been clicked by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft during its flyby on September 17. Since the images have been captured during the dusk, the scientists failed to get the picture of Vikram lander.

With the mission, India had aimed of creating history and become the fourth nation - after the United States, Russia and China – to soft land on the moon. It would also have made India the first country to complete a soft landing near the South Pole on its first attempt.

The NASA on Saturday took to Twitter to commend ISRO's attempt to land its Chandrayaan-2 mission on the South Pole of the Moon.

Ensuring that there are still hopes alive to establish a connection with Vikram lander, ISRO chief K Sivan told the national broadcaster that his team will continue to find a connection with the lander for next 14 days.

PM Narendra Modi was on his way out from the ISRO centre after completing his address when he turned to congratulate K Sivan for all his efforts in the mission. Mr Sivan broke into tears as PM Modi gave him a hug and several pats on the back to ensure he does not get disheartened with the results.