India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has captured a beautiful video of the Moon's surface during the country's latest Moon landing attempt.
During that first step of the journey, Chandrayaan-3 actually captured a very beautiful video of the Moon slowly zooming up to meet the spacecraft. You can see the video, which was captured by the spacecraft on August 5 above, for a good look at just how close it is coming to the surface duringBut why is it so difficult to put an unmanned spacecraft on the Moon’s surface? Well, a lot of that comes down to the fact that our Moon doesn’t have a thick atmosphere.
That’s why these orbital insertions are so important and why Chandrayaan-3’s landing on the Moon this year requires so many small movements to put it into the correct orbit, allowing it to slow naturally as it descends closer to our lunar satellite. But the hard part is still to come. India has seen successful orbital insertions in the past. If it really wants to stick this, it will need to make sure that each consecutive orbital insertion goes according to plan and that the spacecraft is able to slow enough before making its final approach.
With our second moon race already kicking off and several countries rushing to put new spacecraft on the Moon, it’s only a matter of time before India gets it right. All we can do now is wait and see if this is that time or if that chance will come later, perhaps after
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