— What's next for India's Chandrayaan-3 moon rover mission? — Latest news about India's space program India's first attempt to land on the moon came in 2019. The Chandrayaan-2 lander experienced errors during the latter part of its descent and made a hard impact with the lunar surfa...
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...
Here we report the first in situ measurements of the elemental abundances in the lunar southern high-latitude regions by the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) experiment10 aboard the Pragyan rover of India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission. The 23 measurements in the vicinity of the Chandrayaan-3...
The Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module remains in orbit of the Moon, but the Vikram lander is now a permanent resident of the surface. Aboard the lander is Pragyan, a small six-wheeled rover. Until now, only the US, China, and the Soviet Union have successfully landed spacecraft on the Moon...
An artist's impression of the Chandrayaan-3 lander with its small rover deployed on the lunar surface.ISRO/Indian Defence Network Circling the moon in an elliptical orbit with a high point of 83 miles and a low point of just 15.5 miles, Chandrayaan-3's braking engines fired up around 8:...
Image: Jubilation as India lands spacecraft on moon's south side What now? The excitement doesn't end at the landing. After a few hours, the spacecraft's lander deploys a rover that will spend two weeks gathering rock samples, images, and data....
ISRO now conducting the farthest expedition into the lunar south ever, with landing site 69.374454°S, 32.318695°E ~625km from the southernmost point on the Moon (90°S on Shackleton crater rim); Lander Module Vikram and Pragyan rover operating nominally with ILSA, RAMBHA and ChaSTE instruments...
India's third Moon mission Chandrayaan-3, has successfully deployed a lander and a rover at a high-latitude location on the Moon to conduct in situ scientific studies that will potentially improve our understanding on the primary crust formation and subsequent modification ...
Artemis aims to establish a permanent human presence on and around the moon by the end of the 2020s.;Artemis 3will be the first human surface mission of the series; it's scheduled to launch late 2025 or 2026. RELATED STORIES: — Chandrayaan-3 rover and lander in sleep mode but ...
The first images from India's Chandrayaan-3 mission taken after the probe's historic moon touchdown reveal a pockmarked surface near the lunar south pole.