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Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission: Pragyan Rover to Explore Lunar South Pole

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully soft-landed on the lunar south pole, making India the first country to achieve this. The Vikram lander touched down at 18:04 local time, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared, 'India is now on the Moon.' The Pragyan rover will explore the surface, searching for water ice. Launched on 14 July from Sriharikota, the mission took about 40 days to reach the moon. Chandrayaan-1 in 2008 detected water molecules, while Chandrayaan-2 failed in 2019. Russia's Luna-25 also failed recently.

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India's Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully soft-landed on the lunar south pole, making India the first country to achieve this. The Vikram lander touched down at 18:04 local time, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared, 'India is now on the Moon.' The Pragyan rover will explore the surface, searching for water ice. Launched on 14 July from Sriharikota, the mission took about 40 days to reach the moon. Chandrayaan-1 in 2008 detected water molecules, while Chandrayaan-2 failed in 2019. Russia's Luna-25 also failed recently.

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