Will Russia's Luna-25 beat India's Chandrayaan-3 to the Moon?

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[–]Musky[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

u/in-the-clouds u/newguy Oh wow, I didn't know there were two lunar landers heading to the moon on the same day! How is this not bigger news!

[–]neolib 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There were a couple of posts actually:

https://saidit.net/s/space/comments/bb1w/russia_launches_luna25_moon_lander_its_1st_lunar/

https://saidit.net/s/space/comments/bb41/russia_shoots_for_the_moon_as_space_race_against/

[–]Musky[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks, didn't see those.

[–]newguy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I didn't know that either, cool!

[–]In-the-clouds 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Archived: https://archive.is/NWUFi

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The article says one of those two missions will be:

the first mission to ever land on the lunar south pole.

The Chinese space program claims to have landed a rover in the South Pole Aitken Basin on the far-side in 2019. I do not see them releasing color photos, as usual.

(There is physical life on the far-side, where no earth-based telescope can look.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_(lunar_crater)

You can see the location of the crater on this black and white image of the far-side.... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moon_farside_LRO_5000.jpg

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I dunno, we made it 60 years ago.

USA USA USA USA