Meanwhile spent propulsion module of Chandrayaan-3 doing its own thing.
https://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan_3_Fly_by.html
As an experiment it was moved from lunar orbit to Earth centered orbit (but it feels like it misses being around Moon lol)
https://www.isro.gov.in/Ch3_Propulsion_Module_moved_from_Lunar_orbit_to_Earth_orbit.html
#China 🇨🇳 has four successful #Chang’e robotic landings.
#Failures include #Hakuto-R 🇯🇵, #Beresheet 🇮🇱, #Luna 25 🇷🇺 and #Chandrayaan2 🇮🇳 (#Chandrayaan3 was successful).
#SLIM 🇯🇵, #Odysseus and #Athena 🇺🇸 landed and communicated back to Earth, but all three toppled over after landing https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/21/science/blue-ghost-moon-landing.html
6-Mar-2025
Planetary science: More potential locations for ice on Moon
Ice may be present a few centimetres below the #Moon’s surface in more areas of the lunar polar regions than was previously thought due to large, yet highly localised, variations in surface temperatures. The results, published in Communications Earth & Environment, are derived from direct measurements taken at the lunar surface in 2023 by the Indian #Chandrayaan3 mission.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1075734 #science #astrobiology
Ice may be present a few centimetres below the Moon’s surface in more areas of the lunar polar regions than was previously thought due to large, yet highly localised, variations in surface temperatures. The results, published in Communications Earth & Environment...
🇮🇳 #India’s budgetary allocation for its space programme is $1.55bn - #NASA’s budget for the year is $25bn 💰. India spent $74m on the #Mars 🔴 orbiter #Mangalyaan and $75m on #Chandrayaan3. NASA’s #Maven orbiter had cost $582m 💰 and Russia’s #Luna25 $133m. #ISRO employs far fewer people and pays lower salaries, which makes Indian projects competitive 💪 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9xlgnnpzvo
Chandrayaan-3 landed within a buried impact crater, which is around 160 km in size, ~4.4 km deep, and likely to be older than the South Pole Atkin (SPA) basin.
https://www.isro.gov.in/ch3_Discovery_of_a_buried_crater_on_the_moon.html
Moon Monday #190 by Jatan Mehta
Chandrayaan 3's Pragyan rover reveals the Moon's molten origins, detecting unique high-latitude minerals. Its findings challenge past theories and pave the way for future lunar exploration! #Chandrayaan3 #LunarScience 🚀🌖🛰🌌🌍💫
#MoonMonday #NASA #ESA #JAXA #SpaceX #Moon #Mars #Space #SpaceNews #SpaceExploration #Spaceflight
Grab some tea, coffee, or beverage of your choice because this week’s Moon Monday is a sci-tech deep dive! 🌝 Chandrayaan 3 contributes to learning our Moon’s origin and evolution The first ever ground-based measurements of high-latitude lunar soil and rocks made by the Chandrayaan 3 rover’s Alpha
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