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Way To Go! ISRO To Launch Chandrayaan 2, Aims To Land On Moon’s South Pole

The rover of India's second lunar mission, costing nearly Rs 800 crore, will be made to land near the yet-unexplored south pole, ISRO's newly-appointed chairman K Sivan said

New Delhi: Chandrayaan-2, the lunar mission under which the ISRO will for the first time attempt to land a rover on the moon's south pole, will be launched in April, Jitendra Singh, in-charge of the Department of Space said on Friday. The rover of India's second lunar mission, costing nearly Rs 800 crore, will be made to land near the yet-unexplored south pole, ISRO's newly-appointed chairman K Sivan said. "India is going to launch Chandrayaan-2 in April. It is under Chandrayaan-1 mission that the ISRO spotted water on the moon. Chandrayaan-2 is a further extension of the project and it is as good as landing a man on the moon," Singh told reporters. Chandrayaan-2 will be ISRO's first inter-planetary mission to land a rover on any celestial body. Sivan noted that the window to launch the mission is between April and November this year. "The targeted date is April. In case we miss the April date, we will launch it in November," Sivan added Citing the reason behind landing the rover near the south pole, Sivan said it is a "very tricky area" with rocks formed a million years ago. "It has very old rocks. This could possibly help us understand the origin of universe," he said Another reason, he cited, behind landing the rover near the south pole was that the area has not been explored by other missions. "Most of the lunar missions in the past have explored the area around the equator of the moon," Sivan added.  
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