India's moon landing was a milestone in space exploration, as no country - the US, China, or Russia - had managed to reach the moon's south pole before.
and deployed several bits of equipment to gather information about the terrain of the moon, chiefly a 26kg rover to collect rock samples and images.
The main objective is to confirm the presence of water ice in the south pole's shadowed craters. If present, it could be used for drinking water, fuel, and oxygen - potentially supporting a permanent human base.'s space agency revealed on Monday morning Vikram had successfully performed a second soft landing via a"hop experiment".
It only reached an altitude of 40cm, and moved between 30cm and 40cm, but the test was said to be a good sign for future missions that could take humans to the moon and back.This content is provided by, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enablecookies or to allow those cookies just once.
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