If Chandrayaan-3 succeeds, India will be the first country to land near the Moon's little-explored south pole.
Chandrayaan-3, India's latest Moon mission, has entered the lunar orbit, the country's space agency has said.
The third in India's programme of lunar exploration, Chandrayaan-3 is expected to build on the success of its earlier Moon missions.It comes 13 years after the country's first Moon mission in 2008, which discovered the presence of water molecules on the parched lunar surface and established that the Moon has an atmosphere during daytime.
The lander weighs about 1,500kg and carries within its belly the 26kg rover which is named Pragyaan, the Sanskrit word for wisdom.that the spacecraft had completed its orbits around the Earth and was headed towards the Moon.
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