After the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s historic landing on the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s rover has begun researching the composition of the surface and investigating water ice near the lunar south pole
Over the next two weeks, the mission will carry out experiments to research the composition of the surface with its Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer and investigate water ice, which has the potential to provide a future crewed base with drinking water, oxygen and fuel for spacecraft.Both the lander and the rover are expected to operate for one lunar day before sunset cuts its ability to harvest energy from solar panels.
pole. Only China, the US and the Soviet Union had previously softly landed craft anywhere on the moon and no country had explored the south pole.
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