India's Chandrayaan-3 probe has photographed the far side of the moon, testing out landing optics that will be put to use during an Aug. 23 touchdown try.
India's Chandrayaan-3 probe has captured more amazing imagery of the moon ahead of its historic touchdown try, which is just a few days away. Chandrayaan-3launched on July 14, on a mission to pull off India's first-ever successful lunar landing. The lander-rover duo has been checking its...
The mission will bring to the lunar surface a lander, called Vikram, and a small rover called Pragyan. The duo will explore the surface for a lunar day (roughly 14 Earth days), if all goes according to plan. Then the long lunar night will descend on the robotic pair and lik...
(L2) and a flyby of the asteroid Toutatis. Chang’e 3 launched in 2013 and landed on the Moon, the first such landing since Luna 24 in 1976. It carried a robotic rover, Yutu, which operated for almost three years. Chang’e 4 also carried a rover, Yutu-2, and on January 3, ...