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, touched down on the surface of the Moon at around 1.30pm UK time, after a tense 30 minute landing sequence when the spacecraft was in a fully autonomous mode.
The achievement now means that India has become the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, following the former Soviet Union, the US and China. While the lander, named Vikram, will also deliver a lunar rover, Sarabhai. Both will conduct scientific experiments includingSeveral countries have their eye on the south pole because of its potential ice supplies, which could, in the future help support long-term human habitation and onward interplanetary travel.
Russia’s Luna-25 mission was bound for the same region, but crashed at the weekend when beginning initial preparations for a descent on Monday.
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