India to become first country to land near moon's south pole| Desh Ki Baat

India will become the fourth country to pull off a controlled landing on the moon. The moon’s south pole hosts an abundance of water ice in its permanently shadowed craters. But it wasn’t until India’s first Chandrayaan mission in 2008 that an instrument on the orbiter and a probe dropped to the lunar surface directly confirmed the existence of polar water ice. Lunar water ice can theoretically be used for life support and rocket fuel, which is a big part of why NASA wants to send humans to the moon’s south pole.