I hope they pull off a successful landing and mission. It will be the first time for a lunar landing near the South Pole…. or at least a non crash landing of which there may have been some.
I do too. I see a vague parallel between the race to reach the earth’s south pole and the moon’s. There were two parties racing each other to reach the earth’s - the English Robert Falcon Scott and the Norwegian Roald Amundsen. Unfortunately Scott perished in the expedition - which is what we learned of the Russian lander today, and Amundsen’s party went ahead to be the first to reach the south pole. Whether the Indians can be the Amundsens of the moon’s southern region, we will see.
And, since the Indians are the first to send cows into space, NASA was instrumental in devising sensors to monitor methane levels.