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First image from India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission
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BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-66425524 Wikipedia's orbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-3#Orbit_raising_and_station_keeping Isro on Twitter: https://twitter.com/isro/status/1688248504458846208
For reference, the ISS's height is ~413 km above Earth.