Chandrayaan- 3: Lunar South Pole Was Chosen For Huge Scientific Possibilities, Says ISRO Chief S Somnath

As India continues to bask in the glory of Chandrayaan-3, Indian Space Research Organisation's바카라 웹사이트(ISRO) name last evening entered the global elite space club for achieving an unmatched feat of making a successful soft landing on the south polar surface of the moon.

What made바카라 웹사이트the soft landing at the lunar south pole바카라 웹사이트so challenging바카라 웹사이트was the presence of innumerous바카라 웹사이트craters and deep trenches of widely varying depth and radii.

It was no easy ride for the thousands of scientists at the ISRO as success only바카라 웹사이트came after third attempt at landing a spacecraft on the lunar surface. The last one, Chandrayaan-2, was listed as a partial failure after its lander crashed on the lunar surface following a hard landing바카라 웹사이트and went incommunicado바카라 웹사이트in September 2019.

Taking lessons from the previous attempt, which바카라 웹사이트took India so close to success in 2019, this time바카라 웹사이트the scientists left no stone unturned to accomplish the soft landing.

What did the ISRO Chief say?

When asked about the reason behind바카라 웹사이트selecting the perilous바카라 웹사이트south pole for the lander Vikram's landing, the ISRO Chief S Somnath told NDTV, "Entire instrumentation of Chandrayaan-3 is for landing on the south pole or near the south pole. But there are a huge amount of scientific possibilities on the South Pole. They are related to the presence of water and minerals on the moon."

"There are many other physical processes that scientists would want to be investigated. Five of our instruments are targetted towards exploring those areas," he further added.

According to the ISRO Chief, the scientists had to begin from the scratch this time as, owing to the hard landing of the Chandrayaan-2 lander followed by its destruction, no data could be retrieved from it.

He further explained that the first year was spent figuring out the fallacies that led to the failure during Chandrayaan-2.