ISRO's parachute found in rural Karnataka
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A parachute of ISRO's National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) in Hyderabad was recovered from an open field in Kannal, a small hamlet in Vijaypura about 505 km from Bangalore and 380 km from Hyderabad, the police informed on Saturday.
"We found the snapped parachute and some equipment in an open field belonging to Eeranna Kambar, a resident of Kannal village in Basavana Bagewadi, on Thursday morning," an officer said.
"The equipment had ISRO's Hyderabad address. The package has been couriered," the police added.
The police contacted the phone number on the equipment and the people concerned requested the police to send everything recovered to NRSC with necessary precautions. Prima facie, the equipment belongs to a weather monitoring system or part of some experiment by ISRO, the police added.
