Jenkins
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India have landed on the moon's south pole
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Jameshow
Veteran
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
You know you've just opened the floodgates for a load of space/Indian meal puns don't you.
- Location
- Inside my skull
The Spice Race is hotting up.
bobzmyunkle
Senior Member
Reminded me of this - probably too political for here
View: https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4?si=L0ljgGAWtEijPTAn
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- Inside my skull
Anyone know what science they plan to do whilst there?
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
So they can compare how similar a Poppadom looks to the moon?
Seriously though, it all about finding water that can be used for future missions to Mars, etc, apparently.
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
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- Craggy Island
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Not a great deal. The mission is mainly a technical demonstration.
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T4tomo
Legendary Member
Parts of the southern pole end are in permanent shadow, that's why they are looking for ice there to answer @Mings question, does that count as the dark side of the moon? The "side" we cant see is indeed not dark, nor made of cheese one suspects.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Au contraire. I refer you to Wallace and Gromit
The problem being that they haven't landed at or near the South Pole and nowhere close to the craters that are in perpetual darknes where the water ice is expected to be found. From the Ars Technica news story:
India's Vikram lander is now operating on the near side of the Moon at about 69 degrees south latitude, closer to the lunar south pole than any prior mission. All of NASA's Apollo missions, which had astronauts, explored locations closer to the Moon's equator, as have China's robotic landing vehicles. But the Vikram lander didn't land far enough south to explore permanently shadowed craters where vast deposits of water ice may be present.
Oldhippy
Cynical idealist
But the brilliance of being able to do it at on a comparatively tiny budget compared to others shows the potential of so many new discoveries for the human race generally if we would just stop being d*cks to each other and making it one long 'mine's longer than yours' competition.
bobzmyunkle
Senior Member
Is there any evidence yet that this landing was faked?
Threevok
Growing old disgracefully
- Location
- South Wales
I don't know, but there's already a Bolllywood film in the making - called Paprika One
