India's Chandrayaan 3 makes historic Moon landing

bionicjoey , 10 months ago

Hopefully they can finally prove the existence of moon penguins.

Treczoks , 10 months ago

Is there any breakdown of the mission somewhere? All I can find is “they are looking for water”. But what are they actually doing? Scoop things up from the surface? Drill? What kind of instruments do they use? Spectroscopy? Chemical tests?

RvTV95XBeo , 10 months ago

the first spacecraft to land near the Moon’s south pole

I’m having trouble finding specifics of the Russian “landing” - any chance they’re gonna come out and claim they made it to the South Pole first or did they miss entirely?

FlounderBasket , 10 months ago

There’s plenty of articles about Russia’s failed moon landing.

reuters.com/…/russias-moon-mission-falters-after-…

www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02659-6

www.cnn.com/2023/08/20/world/…/index.html

www.nytimes.com/…/russia-moon-space-crash.html

RvTV95XBeo , 10 months ago

Yeah, I didn’t say I couldn’t find articles about the landing; it’s been all over Lemmy. My issue is that I couldn’t find anything specific to where the lander crashed, if it even reached anywhere near the South Pole.

None of the articles you linked indicate where the lander crashed. They acknowledge it was headed for the South Pole, “switched to an off-design orbit”, and crashed into the Moon.

A_A , 10 months ago

bad bot
this is already old news