Chandrayaan-3 is edging closer to making a soft landing on the lunar south pole on August 23.
Chandrayaan-3 was launched into a high elliptical Earth orbit on July 14 andThe Chandrayaan-3 comprises a Vikram lander, and a Pragyan rover outfitted with cutting-edge scientific equipment. The two will explore, investigate, and collect data from the lunar surface for around 14 Earth days only due to freezing lunar temperatures, which may exhaust their batteries.
If the Russian spacecraft successfully lands on this designated date, then Chandrayaan-3 would be second to land on the less-explored south pole region of the Moon. While India will be the fourth country after the US, the former Soviet Union, and China to achieve a soft landing on Moon.
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