Moon South Pole

Private US Spaceship Lands Near Moon’s South Pole, But Awkwardly

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Second time unlucky: A US company’s lunar lander appears to have touched down at a wonky angle on Thursday, an embarrassing repeat of its previous mission’s less-than-perfect landing last year. Houston-based Intuitive Machines made history in February 2024 as the first private firm to place a spaceship on Earth’s nearest neighbor, though the moment was … Read more

Chandrayaan-3 landing site is estimated to be 3.7 billion years old: Scientists

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NEW DELHI: The landing site where India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft touched the surface of the Moon’s South Pole in 2023 is about 3.7 billion years old, according to Indian scientists.Using high-resolution remote sensing datasets, a team of scientists, including from Isro’s Electro Optics Systems centre in Bengaluru, Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad and Panjab University in … Read more