India is just a couple of days away from attempting a historic soft landing on the moon that would see it join an elite club.
India is just a couple of days away from attempting a historic soft landing on the moon, which, if successful, would see it join an elite club alongside the U.S., China, and the former Soviet Union.
Recommended Videos India is aiming to land its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft near the moon’s South Pole, which is an area of great scientific interest and has yet to be explored in detail. A successful landing will allow scientists to investigate the moon’s composition and other elements of the nearby environment.
Its 2019 Chandrayaan-2 mission failed to safely put down the lander, though the mission’s orbiter continues to circle the celestial body. Before that, the Chandrayaan-1 mission in 2008 delivered a probe to the lunar surface in a rapid but controlled descent, and data from the probe confirmed the presence of frozen water deposits in the lunar soil.
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