All the space agencies in the world are in race to reach on the moon’s south pole, but the major question that arises is that why every country wants to land on this region? Notably, India’s space agency is currently engaged in a notable endeavor: the mission to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon’s south pole. Starting as early as the 1960s, even before the initial Apollo landing, the notion of lunar water was a subject of scientific speculation. In the same year, another NASA probe impacting the moon’s south pole unveiled the existence of water ice beneath the lunar surface. Additionally, an earlier NASA mission, the 1998 Lunar Prospector, had gathered evidence indicating that the most concentrated water ice was located within the shadowed craters of the moon’s south pole.

Source: News 24 August 23, 2023 05:28 UTC