why is it so impressive that India landed on the South side of the Moon?
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We want to go to the South part of the moon because Water Ice was discovered there which could be useful for colonisation in the future.
Until now, no country had ever managed to land on the South part of the moon. Landing on the equator is easier and safer, requires less fuel and less corrections because earth’s and moon’s equators are almost aligned. South part of the moon is mostly dark, cold and covered by craters on top of that. Russia’s Luna-25 tried to land some days ago but crashed. India’s Chandrayaan-3 landed there with $75 million, and became the 4th country to land on the moon. Luna-25 mission costed $200 million for reference. Even the movie Interstellar had a budget of $165 million. The Ranger missions (1 to 9) by NASA in the 60’s costed around $1.3 billion in today’s value, and they were designed to just purposefully crash land on the moon.
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