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South Korea's science ministry has released a photo taken by the nation's Danuri Moon orbiter depicting the landing site of India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission. The lunar orbiter's side hustle as space paparazzi saw it take the snap on August 27 – four days after Chandrayaan-3 became India’s first successful Moon landing, and …

  1. sitta_europea Silver badge

    On Earth, Prydz bay

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prydz_Bay

    is at about the same latitude as the latest Lunar lander.

    I don't think anyone would have said Shackleton had reached the South Pole when he got to that latitude, since he still had 1,200 miles to go...

    It's not so far from 70 degrees to the pole on the Moon as it is on Earth, but it's still over 300 miles.

    1. John Brown (no body) Silver badge

      Not only that, but the South Korean orbiter, at a distance of about 100km, was closer to the lander while still in orbit, than the lander is to the Moons south pole.

  2. artificial bitterness

    Computer...

    Enhance!

  3. WereWoof

    IDEFIX

    Idefix was renamed to Dogmatix for certain version of the Asterix comics IIRC.

  4. M.V. Lipvig Silver badge

    That's neat and all, but that Indian lander looks a lot like the US lander from the 1970s. I wonder why they chose a lander design meant for carrying people for an unmanned mission? Anyone heard whether or not India is planning manned missions?

    1. ravenviz Silver badge

      The design is proven so why fix it if it ain’t broke?

      Besides, it’s only 2 m tall, the Apollo landers were 7 m tall.

      1. M.V. Lipvig Silver badge

        As good a reason as any other, if it didn't cost probably 40 grand USD per launched pound for a Moon shot. Going the extra weight would imply testing for other uses.

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