India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon.
Congratulations India! I had never considered that the moon’s poles would be good for solar energy. My brain was stuck in the thinking of Earth’s poles, but of course the moon doesn’t have an atmosphere to get in the way of the light and make the poles colder and darker
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Japan tried too? I only saw the Russian one.
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“Japan” didn’t try, a private company in Japan did.
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The Chandrayaan-3, which means “mooncraft” in Sanskrit, put down its Vikram lander shortly after 6pm (1230 GMT) near the little-explored lunar south pole in a world first for any space programme.
People across the country were glued to television screens and said prayers as the spacecraft approached the surface.
The country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, watched the landing from South Africa, where he is attending the Brics summit.
Instead, the probe orbited Earth several times to gain speed before embarking on its month-long lunar trajectory.
A six-wheeled rover is scheduled to roam the lunar surface gathering images and data.
The Chandrayaan-3 is expected to remain functional for two weeks, running a series of experiments including a spectrometer analysis of the mineral composition of the lunar surface.
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Congratulations, India. Nice to see the uncommanded lithobraking maneuver has been fixed.
A huge congratulations to India.
Nice. I was starting to think the moon’s south pole had become the new Bermuda Triangle.
You go from zero to Bermuda Triangle quite quickly.
Draw me a triangle and lose a vessel in it, and I’ll have my knee length slacks on like that 🫰
