There was once a magma-filled ocean on the south pole of the moon ... near the south pole of the moon in August 2023. The ...

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after ISRO initiated the automatic landing sequence on the vehicle. At 6:04 PM, The Vikram lander made a touch down on the South Pole of the Moon creating history. In next 4 hours, approximately ...

No wonder then that there's a so-called space race to reach the south pole of the Moon, far away from the Apollo landing sites clustered around the equator. Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes ...

These areas feature a variety of geological characteristics, providing flexibility for mission planning. The lunar South Pole ...

Meanwhile India has just launched its second attempt at performing a soft landing on the Moon’s south pole with the Chandrayaan-3 mission, which is part of its larger Chandrayaan program.

India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon's south pole. The Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-3 made a perfect touchdown as planned at 18:04 local time (12:34 GMT ...

which has never been explored by any space agency before The Lunar South Pole's rugged terrain, peppered with huge craters, presents difficulties for landing, compounded by challenging dark ...

Russia launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years on 11 August, taking a more direct course to reach the moon's south pole where scientists have detected water ice that could be used ...

India's mission to the moon made history last month when the country became the first to successfully land near the lunar south pole. But landing was just the beginning. Both the mission's Vikram ...

In August, India made history when its uncrewed Vikram lander touched down near the lunar south pole, making it the fourth country to softly land a spacecraft on the moon's surface. Now ...

India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole on Aug. 23 — a historic voyage to uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen ...