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Recent Moon Landing Mission Ends Early Due To Bad Landing At The Lunar South Pole
The moon seems to be an increasingly busy place, with missions headed in its direction being planned all the time. This is, ...
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Why Chandrayaan-3 landed near the moon's south pole — and why everyone else wants to get there too
The lunar south pole is attracting intense attention from space agencies. Even NASA plans to land Artemis 3 astronauts there. India's Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully landed near the moon's ...
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India’s Chandrayaan-3 landed on the south pole of the Moon. Here's why that matters
India made history as the first country to land near the south pole of the Moon with its Chandrayaan-3 lander on Aug. 23, 2023. This also makes it the first country to land on the Moon since China ...
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Why there's a rush to explore the Moon's enigmatic South Pole
The arrival of the Chandrayaan-3 mission on the surface of the Moon's South Pole has been a moment of intense national pride in India (Credit: Getty Images) India's Chandrayaan-3 mission is ...
A rare landing on the south pole of the moon led to this scientific discovery
There was once a magma-filled ocean on the south pole of the moon, scientists recently discovered after analyzing lunar soil ...
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Private Japanese moon probe snaps photo of lunar south pole ahead of June 5 landing
Resilience launched on Jan. 15 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that also carried another private moon lander: Firefly ...
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India just won the race to the moon’s South Pole. Here’s what comes next
Shadows stretch across the moon's South Pole in this mosaic image. (Credit: ESA/SMART-1/AMIE camera team; image mosaic: M. Ellouzi/B. Foing) Early in the morning Mountain Time today, an Indian lander ...
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Why Is Everyone Trying to Land at the South Pole of the Moon?
It seems like everyone who’s anyone is sending a spacecraft to the south pole of the Moon these days. India just landed there, and Russia recently crashed a lander trying to get there.
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The significance of India's landing on the moon’s south pole
The Indian Space Research Organization wanted to prove it could land a lander softly at the south pole of the moon. No nation has ever done this. India becomes the fourth nation to land on the ...
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NASA reveals where it wants the next Americans to land on the moon
But it has already identified where on the moon the astronauts would land. The space agency announced Friday that it has selected 13 possible regions at the South Pole of the moon, where there is ...
Sky1y
Why the moon's south pole is the chequered flag of space race 2.0
An abundant source of ice in the deeply shadowed south pole craters would help sustain a human base on the moon, providing hydration, oxygen and the ingredients for rocket fuel. Other nations ...
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Humans Are Going to the Moon’s South Pole. This Is How They’ll Drive There
Stick your standard rubber car tires on the moon—especially at its south pole in the middle of the lunar night, where temperatures can reach –300 degrees Fahrenheit—and nothing good will happen.