VIDEO: CHENNAI ENGINEER REVEALS HOW HE FOUND VIKRAM LANDER ON MOON; NASA CREDITS HIM! 

It's a proud moment for India as Chennai-based engineer, Shanmuga Subramanian, has been credited by NASA after he alerted them about the debris of the lander of Chandrayaan 2.

After months of frantic search, he had alerted both the US space agency and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) about the much awaited results. 

According to NDTV reports, the 33-year-old mechanical engineer said that he got a good response from the scientists at NASA. "I did send a tweet to NASA and ISRO. I sent emails to a couple of NASA scientists. They were in charge of the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) images. I got a good response from them," Subramanian told NDTV.

Further explaining about his search, Subramanian said that he worked for up to seven hours every day to locate the lander. "I narrowed my search to 2 square kilometres. I used only a laptop and searched all the images."

 After months of search, on October 3, he tagged NASA and ISRO on his social media handle and said "Is This Vikram Lander?  (1 Km From The Landing Spot) Lander Might Have Been Buried In Lunar Sand?". Then, on November 17, he informed about more details with two images of the crash site.

The Chennai Engineer, became the first person to come up with a positive result about the Vikram lander. Further giving hopes of having a successful Chandrayaan 3, the techie said "It's quite big but it is a little sad at the same time because we all expected Vikram to land on the surface. I hope ISRO will again have a successful Chandrayaan 3 and they will be able to land on moon next time".

As per NDTV reports, Subramanian hails from Tamil Nadu's Madurai city. He works in the IT sector at a multinational firm. 

The #Chandrayaan2 Vikram lander has been found by our @NASAMoon mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. See the first mosaic of the impact site https://t.co/GA3JspCNuh pic.twitter.com/jaW5a63sAf

— NASA (@NASA) December 2, 2019

@NASA has credited me for finding Vikram Lander on Moon's surface#VikramLander #Chandrayaan2@timesofindia @TimesNow @NDTV pic.twitter.com/2LLWq5UFq9

— Shan (@Ramanean) December 2, 2019

@NASA @LRO_NASA @isro

This might be Vikram lander's crash site (Lat:-70.8552 Lon:21.71233 ) & the ejecta that was thrown out of it might have landed over here https://t.co/8uKZv7oXQa (The one on the left side was taken on July 16th & one on the right side was from Sept 17) pic.twitter.com/WNKOUy2mg1

— Shan (@Ramanean) November 17, 2019