The amazing camera aboard ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 that took this amazing moon photo
The Chandrayaan-3 mission, ISRO’s remarkable unmanned lunar endeavour, has gifted us with mesmerising visuals of both the Moon and Earth, enhancing our understanding of these celestial bodies.
Intricate Details Revealed
This awe-inspiring photograph, showcasing intricate lunar craters in great detail, was masterfully taken upon the spacecraft’s entrance into the Moon’s orbit on August 5th. This…
I want yall to realise how momentous this is and how much we could do. Chandrayaan 3 had a budget of Rs 615 crore, that's roughly $74 million. For less than a two hundredth of elon musk's net worth, a country with a per capita income of $2000 sent a spacecraft to the Moon's south pole.
On August 15th, 1947, India became free from British colonialism and violent oppression by the British empire. On Wednesday August 23rd, 2023, India landed a spacecraft on the South Pole of the moon, being the 4th country of all nations to get to the moon and the first to get to the South Pole of the moon. I am proud to be brown.
India has landed on the Moon!!! The landing is part of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s historic Chandrayaan-3 mission.
"'We have achieved soft landing on the moon,'" said ISRO Chairman Shri Somanath. 'Yes, on the moon!'"
"[Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi] then addressed the ISRO team, speaking in Hindi but adding in English, 'India is now on the moon!'
'The success belongs to all of humanity,' he said. 'And it will help moon missions by other countries in the future. I'm confident that all countries in the world ... can all aspire for the moon and beyond. ... The sky is not the limit!'"
The remote operated lander named Vikram touched down in the south pole region at 6:02pm IST on August 23, 2023. Vikram carried a small but mighty companion, the lunar rover Pragyan (Sanskrit, "wisdom").
Vikram is named after Vikram Sarabhai, PhD, physicist, astronomer, and a major figure in the development of India's space and nuclear programs. Sarabhai served as the first chairman of the ISRO, as well as the driving force behind the organization's creation. Recognizing the need for more coordinated space research in India, Sarabhai urged the Indian government to create INCOSPAR - the committee that eventually formed the ISRO in 1969.
India lands robotic Chandrayaan-3 near Moon's south pole
People celebrate at the Indian Space Research Organisation’s mission control following the successful landing of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft. Credit: ISRO
India has successfully soft-landed a robotic spacecraft on the Moon, becoming only the fourth country to do so, and the first to touchdown at the south pole region.
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Congratulations India!!
ISRO – Indian Space Research Organisation has achieved the unprecedented soft landing of a probe on the Moon’s South Pole.
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This is a huge success for a nation that has been able to successfully send a mission to the Moon on a budget of just under $75 million (around ₹ 615 crore) to build the Chandrayaan-3. As a paragon, Russia’s Luna 25, which…
Congratulations to India for its perfect landing of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the surface of the moon this week! 🚀 🌓 🇮🇳
While the soft landing was well executed, it's equally significant that the landing took place in the moon's south polar region – an area which has not previously been explored.
This achievement was a contrast to Russia's Luna-25 craft crashing on the moon's surface a few days earlier. After the failure of Luna-25, a scientist who served as a consultant for the mission, Mikhail Marov, was rushed to the hospital.
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