Why is August 23rd National Space Day in India?
The date marks the historic landing of Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram Lander on the Moon’s south pole on August 23, 2023.
The date marks the historic landing of Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram Lander on the Moon’s south pole on August 23, 2023.
Shubhanshu Shukla is the second Indian to go to space (after Rakesh Sharma in 1984). And, he’s the first Indian to visit the International Space Station.
The research team found that a mineral called ferrihydrite could be responsible for Mars’s red colour.
Billions of years ago, when the Moon was still young, its surface was covered in a vast ocean of magma—a hot, molten mixture of rocks and minerals.
Solar storms are like big explosions on the sun that send energy and tiny particles zooming through space. When these particles reach Earth, they can create beautiful light shows in the sky called auroras, also known as the Northern Lights
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Chandrayaan-1-was ISRO’s first mission to the moon. It was launched on the 22nd of October 2008 from The Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
Written by Sthitee Mohanty, senior writer
If Chandrayaan 3 lands successfully on the moon’s surface, India will become the fourth country to land safely on the moon, joining China, the U.S.A., and Russia