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[[File:Chandrayaan-1-MIP1.jpg|thumb|Moon Impact Probe being integrated with Chandrayaan-1 orbiter]]<br />
[[File:Chandrayaan-1-MIP2.jpg|thumb|Moon Impact Probe being worked on before integration with orbiter]]<br />
'''Jawahar Point''' or ''' Jawahar Sthal''' is a region near the Shackleton Crater where the Moon Impact Probe struck the surface of the Moon.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://vedas.sac.gov.in/vedas/downloads/atlas/Planetary/Moon_English.pdf|title=Images of the Moon from Chandrayaan-1|date=2011|website=vedas.sac.gov.in|publisher=Space Applications Centre (ISRO)|page=102|isbn=978-81-909978-3-6|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021111801/https://vedas.sac.gov.in/vedas/downloads/atlas/Planetary/Moon_English.pdf|archive-date=21 October 2017|url-status=|access-date=18 April 2019}}</ref> It was named to mark the event of the [[Moon Impact Probe]] striking the lunar surface after being released from [[India]]'s first lunar orbiter mission [[Chandrayaan-1]] as it was designed to do. The [[Moon Impact Probe]] crash-landed on the lunar surface on 14 November 2008, the birthday of former [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], near the [[Shackleton (crater)|Shackleton crater]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vssc.gov.in/VSSC_V4/index.php/chandrayaan-1/82-chandrayaan-1/936-chandrayaan-1-the-exciting-journey-to-moon|title=Chandrayaan-1:The Exciting Journey to Moon|access-date=2016-12-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220121240/http://www.vssc.gov.in/VSSC_V4/index.php/chandrayaan-1/82-chandrayaan-1/936-chandrayaan-1-the-exciting-journey-to-moon|archive-date=2016-12-20|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/article/sci-tech/did-india-beat-nasa-to-find-water-on-moon-9091|title=Did India beat NASA to find water on moon?|work=NDTV.com|access-date=20 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006180606/http://www.ndtv.com/article/sci-tech/did-india-beat-nasa-to-find-water-on-moon-9091|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The location of the MIP impact is {{Coord|89.76|S|39.40|W|globe:Moon|display=inline}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/ser570E.pdf|title=Information furnished in conformity with the Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space|date=10 November 2009|website=UNOOSA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328215138/http://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/ser570E.pdf|archive-date=28 March 2019|url-status=|access-date=28 March 2019}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Chandrayaan-1]]<br />
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