India’s uncrewed Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully landed today close to the moon’s south pole. It joins an elite club of only four nations to soft-land on the moon.
India’s third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3 was launched on July 14, 2023 from Satish Dhawan Space Center in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, an island off the coast of southern Andhra Pradesh state on July 14, 2023. It’s a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2, India’s first attempt to land on the moon, whichon September 6, 2019 when contact was lost with the spacecraft when it was 2.
That was a follow-on from the original Chandrayaan mission, which orbited the moon in 2009 carrying NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper , an imaging spectrometer that provided the first high-resolution spectral and spatial maps of the Moon's surface.The lunar South Pole region. Since then there’s been a rush to plan missions to explore more about the moon’s south pole, which has craters both permanently in sunlight and permanently in darkness.
NASA’s Artemis-3 mission, scheduled for the mid-2020s, will land one female and one male astronaut on the surface of the moon in the south pole region.
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