India is the first nation to touch down in the area, just days after Russia’s failed attempt.
crashed while trying to land in the same region. India is now the fourth nation to achieve a soft Moon landing and the first to have successfully touched down on the lunar south pole — a little-explored area of the Moon that’s believed to contain water ice.
Three other nations — the US, China, and the former Soviet Union — have all previously achieved a soft landing near the Moon’s equator, a safer region with amiable temperatures and terrain and reliable sunlight to recharge solar-powered instruments. By contrast, much of the Moon’s southern pole is littered with deep craters and basins that are permanently shrouded in darkness., these areas haven’t seen sunlight in billions of years and can experience temperatures as low as negative 334 degrees Fahrenheit . The extreme conditions in these “cold traps” make remote observation from Earth difficult and present problems for operating sensitive equipment in the region.
The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft took 22 days to enter the Moon’s orbit on August 5th, following its launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on July 14th. On August 17th, the Vikram lander carrying Pragyan — a lunar ground rover — successfully separated from its propulsion module in preparation for today’s soft landing. The mission marks India’s second attempt at a lunar landing after the
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