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India and Russia have crashed on the moon
After India and China’s first-ever Moon mission, the Vikram landers and Pragyan rover had successfully landed on the Moon’s south polar area. The Vikram landers and Pragyan rover will be used to land on the moon’s south polar region as part of an attempt to put a human on the lunar surface. India’s previous attempt…
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Private Moon mission prepares for historic landing attempt
UAE’s first lunar mission M1 is scheduled to launch on March 14 with JAXA’s JAXA Rashid rover. Both the rovers are expected to travel to the Moon’s Atlas crater and study lunar soil and geology. “This is a region that no previous lunar missions have explored,” said Hamid AlNaimiy, an astrophysicist at the University of…
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The first rock samples for delivery to Earth will be taken by the NASA Mars rover.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has deposited samples in its “Sample Depot” in the Jezero Test Area to begin a process that will create a cache of back-up samples that will be safe if something goes catastrophically wrong as the rover continues to explore Je zero. “The samples for this depot, and the duplicates held aboard Perseverance,…