🛰️ Mission
Chandrayaan-3
The first landing near the Moon’s south pole.
- Launched
- 14 July 2023, 3 years ago
- Landed
- 23 August 2023
- Worked for
- 52 days, until 4 September 2023
- Built by
- ISRO
- Where it is
- Asleep at Shiv Shakti Point, near the Moon’s south pole, where it did not wake when the Sun came back
- Best known for
- Landed where nobody had landed before, and measured how the soil at the pole warms and cools
Did you know?
- It carried a rover, Pragyan, which drove about a hundred metres and photographed the lander standing on the Moon.
- India became the fourth country to land on the Moon, and the first to do it near the south pole, where the ice is.
- Chandrayaan-2 had tried the same landing in 2019 and crashed, but its orbiter is still up there, and it relayed Chandrayaan-3’s signals home.
Where it went
The Moon
Earth’s only natural moon, and the only other world people have walked on.
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