Chandrayaan 3 Landing: ISRO has shared the latest video of the moon taken from Chandrayaan-3. Chandrayaan-3 will make a soft landing on the Moon’s south pole on Wednesday (August 23).
Chandrayaan 3 Moon Landing: The whole country is watching the news of Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon. As the time of landing on 23rd August is approaching, people’s curiosity is also increasing. Not only people, scientists, and engineers sitting in the control room of ISRO are also excited.
Every information and calculation related to the Chandrayaan-3 mission is being checked many times. Meanwhile, ISRO Chairman S Somnath has expressed confidence in the successful landing on August 23.
A day before the landing, the ISRO chief told The Times of India, “We are confident, as everything has been fine so far and nothing unexpected has happened till this point. We have made all preparations and till this stage, all systems have performed as per our requirement.”
He further informed us that now we are preparing for landing with many simulations, verifications, and double verification of the system. Checking the health of the devices.
An atmosphere of excitement in the control room of ISRO:
On Tuesday (August 22), ISRO gave information about the mission on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) and said that Chandrayaan-3 is progressing as per schedule. Systems are being regularly checked, and smooth operation continues. ISRO said that there is an atmosphere of energy and excitement in the ‘Mission Operations Complex’.
The lander sent new pictures of the moon:
Along with this, ISRO released pictures of the moon taken by the ‘Lander Position Detection Camera’ from a height of about 70 km. The space agency has informed that there will be live streaming of the landing operation on August 23 from 5.20 pm IST.
Four moon missions failed in four years:
The whole world is watching this landing of ISRO. This is happening at a time when the Russian Moon Mission Luna-25 failed recently. Three of the four missions sent to the moon between 2019 and 2023 have failed.
Among them, Israel’s Beresheet, Japan’s Hakuto-R, India’s Chandrayaan-2, and Russia’s Luna-25 failed. Only China’s Chang-5 managed to land successfully on the moon.
With the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3, India will join the club of special countries. So far only the US, Soviet Union (East), and China have successfully landed on the moon. India will be the fourth country in the world to do so.
