Chandrayaan-2's photos show the volume of that initial success: As Chandryaan-3's lander touched down, its engines scattered the lunar regolith, or moon dust, below. In a new study, scientists ...

The Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, attempted a landing Sept. 7 (Sept. 6 in the United States), on a small patch of lunar highland smooth plains between Simpelius N and Manzinus C craters.

India's Chandrayaan-3 becomes the first space mission to land near the south pole of the Moon "India is now on the Moon," announces PM Narendra Modi immediately after the Vikram lander touches ...

Historic Landing In a historic moment on August 23 at 12:33 P.M. UTC, Vikram, the robotic lander of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, made a soft touchdown on the lunar surface near the south pole.

India’s Vikram lander is the first robotic probe to visit the moon’s south polar region, which is thought to be prime territory for human exploration and settlement.

Vikram is 2 by 2 meters (6.6 feet) in size, and it is visible in the photograph taken by LRO. Rover Pragyan unfortunately was not. Vikram is the dark spot in the bright halo of shaken soil.

Chandrayaan-2 is India’s second mission to the Moon. It comprises a fully indigenous orbiter, lander (Vikram) and rover (Pragyan). The rover Pragyan is housed inside Vikram lander.

The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft's Vikram lander has successfully touched down on the Moon, marking the country's first successful landing on the lunar surface. It's just the fourth country to do so ...

India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has made space travel history today by successfully achieving a soft landing near the mysterious south pole of Earth’s Moon — thought to be rich with water ice.

The Chandrayaan-3 moon lander from India was spotted on the lunar surface on Sept. 6, 2022 by a fellow mission: Chandrayaan-2, which has been orbiting the moon since 2019.

As scheduled, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) on Sept. 17 imaged the intended lunar south pole landing site for India’s Chandrayaan-2 Vikram lander, but long shadows in the ...