NASA due to budget concerns cancelled the VIPER Moon rover mission as the cost was exceeding. The space organization spent $450 million on this mission, and on Thursday, July,17 they made this announcement.
One year has passed since the Indian space organization ISRO did its Chandrayaan-3 mission and launched it on July 14, 2023. This mission created history and was also the most important mission of ISRO that was able to get successful.
Once the Vikram lander has successfully transferred the Pragyan rover to the surface, the scientific payloads will kick into action.
Its primary objective is to study the geology of the Moon, which will provide insight into the composition of Earth's satellite.
He said all district education officers in the state were instructed to open schools from 5 pm to 6 pm for students to watch the live-telecast of the moon mission.
Chandrayaan-3 is expected to land in the southern region of the Moon approximately 6:04 pm IST on August 23, 2023. If the landing is successful, India will make history by becoming the first country to achieve a gentle spacecraft landing on the lunar South Pole
JAXA and ISRO are developing the rover and lander, respectively. The rover will carry not only the instruments of ISRO and JAXA but also those of US space agency NASA and European Space Agency (ESA).
The image, tweeted by the Curiosity rover’s official account on May 19, led to speculation that there was a mysterious portal on Mars' surface.
The four-day wait for the images — one in color, one in black and white, as well as a pair of small video clips — had prompted speculation that something might have gone wrong with the landing on Saturday. When China’s space agency issued a statement in response to those concerns on Tuesday, urging patience, the response online was biting.
The drive lasted about 33 minutes, propelling the rover forward by four metres, where it then turned to the left by 150 degrees and backed up 2.5 metres into its new temporary parking space, the American space agency noted in a statement.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, dispatched to look for the chemical ingredients and environments for microbial life, has found traces of compounds containing carbon, an essential building block for life, scientists said on Monday.
After the successful landing of 'Curiosity' rover on Mars, scientists now plan to navigate the seas of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
NASA's Mars rover was on its final approach to the red planet on Sunday, heading toward a mountain that may hold clues about whether life has ever existed on Mars, officials said.