Chandaryaan-3 Successfully Landed on the South Pole of the Moon

 

Chandaryaan-3 Successfully Landed on the South Pole of the Moon

As a result of India's Moon mission, the country has achieved a first in human history by landing in the lunar south pole region

Following the footsteps of the United States, China, and the erstwhile Union, India became the fourth nation in the world to complete a soft landing on the Moon.

At 18:04 local time (12:34 GMT), the Chandrayaan-3 lander known as Vikram could touch down

"No other country has been able to accomplish what we have. "It's a happy occasion," he went on to say. Mr. Modi was attending the BRICS meeting in South Africa at the time of the incident, and he could view it live there.

Sreedhara Panicker Somanath, the head of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), stated that the successful landing "is not our work alone; this is the work of a generation of Isro scientists.

This accomplishment was accomplished by India only a few days after a Russian spacecraft named Luna-25 lost control and collided with the Moon.

The accident also highlighted how challenging it is to land in the region around the South Pole, where the landscape is described as "very uneven" and "full of craters and boulders."

India's second lunar mission, which similarly intended to soft-land there in 2019, failed; the country's lander and rover were both destroyed, while the country's orbiter managed to stay alive.

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On Wednesday, there were some stressful moments before the touchdown as the lander, named Vikram after Isro founder Vikram Sarabhai, began its perilous fall. The lander was carrying within its belly the 26-kilogram rover named Pragyaan, the Sanskrit word for wisdom.

The lander's speed was gradually lowered from 1.68 kilometers per second down to virtually zero to facilitate a gentle touchdown on the surface of the Moon.

The six-wheeled rover will crawl out of the lander's belly in a few hours - once the dust has settled, according to the scientists - and roam among the rocks and craters on the Moon's surface, gathering important data and photographs to be returned to Earth.

The search for water-based ice, which some scientists believe may one day be able to support human habitation on the Moon, is one of the primary objectives of this mission. Additionally, it could be used as a fuel source for spacecraft on their way to Mars and possibly other far-flung destinations. The amount of surface area permanently shaded there is enormous, and according to scientists' findings, it may contain large amounts of water ice.

The lander and the rover are equipped with five scientific instruments that will assist in discovering the physical properties of the surface of the Moon, the atmosphere close to the surface, and the tectonic activity to research what occurs below the surface. The lander and the rover will carry this equipment.

An official told the BBC that the rover is carrying an Indian flag and that its wheels have the Indian Space Research Organization's brand and logo imprinted on them so that they will leave imprints on the lunar soil when it walks on the Moon.