Posted on 07/10/2019 9:15:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Chandrayaan 2 is India’s first lunar landing mission, and the country’s second robotic mission to the moon following the launch of the Chandrayaan 1 orbiter in October 2008.
The launch Sunday will come two days before the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11.
If the landing is successful, India will become the fourth nation to accomplish a controlled soft landing on the moon, after the former Soviet Union, the United States and China. The Israeli non-profit SpaceIL attempted a landing on the moon in April with the Beresheet mission, but the privately-funded probe crashed on final descent.
Located at approximately 71 degrees south latitude, Chandrayaan 2’s target landing site is closer to the moon’s south pole than any previous mission, roughly 220 miles (350 kilometers) from the rim of the South Pole-Aitken basin.
Scientists believe he sprawling basin region is one of the most ancient impact sites in the solar system, created when a large asteroid or comet struck the moon billions of years ago.
For the first time, Chandrayaan 2’s rover could examine ancient material in the lunar crust ejected during the colossal collision that created the South Pole-Aitken basin, providing data that could yield clues about the solar system’s chaotic early history. The rover, named Pragyan, carries an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer to measure the elemental composition of the rocks at the Chandrayaan 2 landing site, along with a laser-induced breakdown spectroscope.
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How soon before there is a call center on the moon?
Well, any location that will be developed in the future will certainly need hotels and convenience stores.
Shoot it down. The moon is ours and shame on them sticking a finger in our eye making launch on 50th anniversary.
If it goes like my IT Outsource arrangement you have nothing to worry about
How would today be different if they simply followed centuries of tradition when they planted the Flag and declared: “I claim Thee for The United States of America!”?
If you do that, you gotta stick around and repel all challengers.
Yep.
That means a real space race, and a real US presence there.
What are the implications of that, hmmm?
AND. . .imagine the smell in the capsule. . .curry and sweat.
-—If the landing is successful, India will become the fourth nation to accomplish a controlled soft landing on the moon, after the former Soviet Union, the United States and China.-—
Ahem - that’s after the UNITED STATES, the former Soviet Union, and China.
What could possibly go wrong...
If they wrote their own software, it will just crash.
We can’t, no US munitions that can do that. Also, we signed away rights to the moon in the 70s.
Also, if we wanted to keep the moon de facto ours, we should NEVER have stopped going there.
The writer is correct, chronologically. The Soviets and Chinese have not landed men on the moon, but all nations listed have soft-landed probes on the moon.
Specifically:
Luna 9
Launched 31 Jan 1966
Landed on Moon 03 Feb 1966 at 18:44:52 UT
Latitude 7.08 N, Longitude 295.63 E - Oceanus Procellarum
Soviet Russia’s Luna 9 probe was the first soft landing on the moon and the first to send back images from the lunar surface. The US’ first soft landing would be Surveyor I on 2 June 1966, several months later.
Will they bring a tank of filthy dead carcass infested water to bath, brush their teeth, relieve themselves and pray in?
Oh wait i forgot sorry, this is a robotic mission..
*ping*
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