India's space agency landed a spacecraft on the moon's south pole on Wednesday, a mission that will advance the country's space ambitions and expand knowledge of lunar ice, potentially one of the moon's most valuable resources.
on the moon's south pole on Wednesday, a mission that will advance the country's space ambitions and expand knowledge of lunar ice, potentially one of the moon's most valuable resources.
India's much-awaited moon mission Chandrayaan-3 has been scheduled for launch on July 14, 2023. The Soviet Union, the United States, and China are the only three countries that have successfully carried out soft landings on the moon.As early as the 1960s, before the first Apollo landing, scientists had speculated that water could exist on the moon. Samples the Apollo crews returned for analysis in the late 1960s and early 1970s appeared to be dry.
In the same year, another NASA probe that hit the south pole found ice below the moon's surface. An earlier NASA mission, the 1998 Lunar Prospector, had found evidence that the highest concentration of ice was in the south pole's shadowed craters.WHY IS WATER ON THE MOON IMPORTANT?FILE PHOTO: A view of the moon as viewed by the Chandrayaan-3 lander during Lunar Orbit Insertion on August 5, 2023 in this screengrab from a video released August 6, 2023.
It could also be broken down to produce hydrogen for fuel and oxygen to breathe, supporting missions to Mars or lunar mining.
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