Chandrayaan 3: The last 10 minutes are scary..!?

Is there water on the moon? Unknown information about Chandrayaan-3!! With chandrayaan 3, india will become the fourth country to send a rover to the moon after Russia, the US and China. The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft sent by the indian space research center isro has a propulsion unit, a lander and a rover. The lander is called vikram and the probe is called Pragyan. On the 17th, the lander and rover separated from the propulsion chamber as it approached the moon. The lander is currently 25 kilometers from the Moon. He was also informed that the landing of the lander would begin around 5:30 pm today. Chandrayaan-3 landed on the moon today at 6:04 pm. It will be broadcast live nationwide. While waiting for this historic moment, space enthusiasts are organizing events in various places. prime minister Narendra Modi, who attended the BRICS conference in South Africa, will join the Internet.
The suspense around chandrayaan 3 was heightened by the failure of Russia's Luna-25 lunar mission, which crashed into the Moon's surface as it landed on the moon on Sunday. In 2019, the Chandrayaan-2 mission failed to land safely in an area full of holes and deep trenches. The space agency isro is confident that the landing will go smoothly as the scientists have applied all the valuable lessons learned from Chandrayaan-2. Live streaming of the event will begin at 5:20pm via the isro website, YouTube channel and DD National. At 6:04 p.m., the vikram lander carrying the Pragyan probe will attempt a gentle landing on the Moon's South Pole. The location is carefully selected. It can be a very valuable resource. The presence of water on the Moon's surface was discovered in 2009 by NASA's instrument aboard ISRO's Chandrayaan-1 probe. The presence of water offers hope for future lunar missions. It can be used as a source of drinking water, cool equipment, and decompose to produce oxygen. It may also hold clues to the origin of the ocean.India is the fourth country to send a rover to the moon after Russia, the US and China. The Chandra lander was launched on July 14, mounted on the LVM 3 heavy launch pad. It was put into lunar orbit on august 5. The vikram lander is named after vikram Sarabhai, considered by many to be the father of India's space program. After the lunar mission, isro adjusted several projects. One of them is the sun mission and manned spacecraft program, Kaganyan. Aditya-L1, India's first space observatory to study the sun, is likely to launch in the first week of September.
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Sowmiya Sriram

23/08/2023 01:00 PM