Chandrayaan-3 Landing Highlights: What Chandrayaan-3's Vikram Lander And Pragyan Rover Will Do On The Moon
Chandrayaan 3 Moon Landing Live: Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the Moon on August 23, 2023, at 6:04 pm IST, making India the first country to softly land a spacecraft on the Moon’s south pole.
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Chandrayaan-3 Landing HIGHLIGHTS: ‘It Was A Picture-Perfect Landing’, Says INSPACe Chairman
Pawan K Goenka, the chairman of the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (INSPACe) on Thursday called Chandrayaan-3’s successful soft landing on the lunar south pole a “picture-perfect landing”.
#WATCH | Bengaluru: On the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3, Chairman of INSPACe, Pawan K Goenka, says, "...There was a lot of apprehension and anxiety before the event because we had Chandrayaan-2 which just fell short of landing on the Moon...It was a picture-perfect… pic.twitter.com/WOdUP8JaI6
— ANI (@ANI) August 24, 2023
Former ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair On Chandrayaan-3 Mission
Speaking on the Chandrayaan-3 mission and its successful soft landing on the South Pole region of the Moon, former ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said, “The Pragyan rover has moved out and it is capable of travelling around the landing site to collect various data which will be useful for the scientific community.”
Chandrayaan-3 Landing HIGHLIGHTS: What Lies Ahead For India's Space Programme
With Chandrayaan-3's historic soft landing on the Moon's south pole, India becomes the first country to softly land a spacecraft on the lunar south pole. The upcoming missions in India's space programme are the Aditya-L1 mission, Gaganyaan programme, Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX), or Chandrayaan-4, Mangalyaan-2, and Shukrayaan, among others.
Chandrayaan-3 Landing Live: The Location Of Chandrayaan-3's Propulsion Module, And What It Is Doing Now
Chandrayaan-3's propulsion module separated from the lander module after they reached a lunar circular orbit of 100 kilometres. While the lander module continued on its journey towards the Moon, the propulsion module remained in lunar orbit, serving as a backup communications relay for the lander and the rover. The propulsion module has a payload which will search for Earth-like signatures from exoplanets to see if they could be inhabited in the future.
Chandrayaan-3 Landing Live: What Chandrayaan-3's Vikram Lander And Pragyan Rover Will Do On The Moon
Both Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander and Pragyan rover have successfully landed on the Moon. The lander will remain fixed in one position and carry out measurements of thermal properties of elements on the lunar surface, measure the seismicity around the landing site, describe the structure of the lunar crust and mantle, and study the gas and plasma environment. The rover will help determine the elemental composition of the lunar soil, and rocks around the landing site, and perform chemical analysis to determine the elemental and mineralogical composition of the lunar surface.
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