India has become the first country in history to successfully land on the Moon's South Pole as the Pragyan rover will begin a two-week exploration of the natural satellite

A few days ago, a Russian interplanetary station launched as part of the Luna-25 mission crashed while attempting to land on the Moon. The Indian landing module was able to do what the Russians failed to do.

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India's Chandrayaan-3 mission launched over a month ago from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre pad. The spacecraft entered lunar orbit on 5 August, and 12 days later the Vikram landing module with the Pragyan rover successfully separated from it.

Vikram landed at the Moon's South Pole, where scientists believe there may be deposits of water ice. The temperature in this region reaches -203° C as some regions of the South Pole have not seen sunlight for billions of years.

The next phase of the Chandrayaan-3 mission is to deploy the Pragyan lunar rover. The rover will explore the surface of the Earth's natural satellite for 14 Earth days, which corresponds to one lunar day. With the help of Pragyan, scientists intend to determine the composition of the surface.

India became the first country in history to make a soft landing at the South Pole and the fourth country on the Moon as a whole. Earlier, only American, Chinese and Soviet vehicles managed to successfully land. Now India is preparing for its first human space mission.

Source: ISRO