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He further declared 23 August, the day the Vikram lander landed on the Moon, as National Space Day. [106] [107] ISRO chief S. Somanath proclaimed "India is on the Moon" after the successful touchdown. [108] "We learnt a lot from our failure and corrected it. It's now 14 days of work and we have to conduct experiments," he told India Today. [109]
A full moon sinking behind San Gorgonio Mountain, California, on a midsummer morning. Moonrise and moonset are times when the upper limb of the Moon appears above the horizon and disappears below it, respectively. The exact times depend on the lunar phase and declination, as well as the observer's location.
A previous iteration of the rover, also named Pragyan, was launched as part of Chandrayaan-2 on 22 July 2019 and was destroyed with its lander, Vikram, when it crashed on the Moon on 6 September. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Chandrayaan-3 launched on 14 July 2023, carrying new versions of Vikram and Pragyan , [ 1 ] which successfully landed near the lunar south ...
Soil studied by India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission near the lunar south pole adds support to the theory that the moon once had a magma ocean billions of years ago. Data from India’s historic moon ...
The mission's lander Vikram and rover Pragyan landed 600 km from the south pole of the Moon on 23 August 2023. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The landing site was named on 26 August 2023 at the ISTRAC headquarters in Bengaluru , [ 5 ] after India became the fourth nation to make a successful soft landing on the Moon and also becoming the first country that ...
The Chandrayaan programme (/ ˌ tʃ ʌ n d r ə ˈ j ɑː n / CHUN-drə-YAHN) (Sanskrit: Candra 'Moon', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle', pronunciation ⓘ) [4] [5] also known as the Indian Lunar Exploration Programme is an ongoing series of outer space missions by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for the exploration of the Moon.
With this, India became the fourth country to land on the Moon and first to land near the southern polar region of the Moon. The soft-landing was followed by successful deployment of Pragyan Rover. Recognizing this achievement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed August 23 as "National Space Day" in India. [4] [5] [6]
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