Days after a Russian lunar landing failed, India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission is set to begin exploring an area of the moon that has yet to be visited and has water ice that could be a resource for future missions.
Two visitors from India — a lander named
Vikram and a rover named Pragyan — landed in the southern polar region of the
moon on Wednesday. The two robots, from a mission named Chandrayaan-3, make
India the first country to ever reach this part of the lunar surface in one
piece — and only the fourth country ever to land on the moon.
“We have achieved soft landing on the
moon,” S. Somanath, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization,
said after a roar ripped through the ISRO compound just past 6 p.m. local time.
“India is on the moon.”
Source: NYT
Source: India
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