{"id":7419,"date":"2023-08-24T05:20:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7419"},"modified":"2023-08-24T05:20:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:20:47","slug":"chandrayaan-3-india-makes-historic-landing-near-moons-south-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7419","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan-3: India makes historic landing near Moon’s south pole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ndia has made history as its Moon mission becomes the first to land in the lunar south pole region.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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With this, India joins an elite club of countries to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, after the US, the former Soviet Union and China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Vikram lander from Chandrayaan-3 successfully touched down as planned at 18:04 local time (12:34 GMT).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Celebrations have broken out across the country, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying “India is now on the Moon”.<\/p>\n

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We have reached where no other country could. It’s a joyous occasion,” he added. Mr Modi was watching the event live from South Africa where he is attending the Brics summit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chief Sreedhara Panicker Somanath said the successful landing “is not our work alone, this is the work of a generation of Isro scientists”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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India’s achievement comes just days after Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and\u00a0crashed into the Moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The crash also put the spotlight on how difficult it is to land in the south pole region where the surface is “very uneven” and “full of craters and boulders”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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India’s second lunar mission, which also attempted to soft-land there in 2019, was unsuccessful – its lander and rover were destroyed, though its orbiter survived.<\/p>\n

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