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India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moon's water-rich south pole (www.newscientist.com)
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India has launched its Chandrayaan-3 mission, which aims to explore the south pole of the moon by rover, completing a scientific mission that was first attempted in 2019 but ended in catastrophic failure due to a software glitch

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[–] mmatessa@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

If successful, India will be the fourth country to land on the Moon besides the US, the USSR, and China.
(China has had rovers on the Moon since 2013)