Chandrayaan-3: Historic India Moon mission sends new photos of lunar surface
India’s space agency has sent images of the Moon taken by the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which entered lunar orbit on Saturday.
The images show craters on lunar surface getting larger and larger as the spacecraft draws closer.
The lander and rover are set to reach the surface on 23 August. If successful, India will be the first country to perform a controlled “soft landing” near the south pole.
It will also make India the fourth country to achieve a soft moon landing after the US, the former Soviet Union and China.
After the spacecraft orbited the Earth for about 10 days, it was sent into the translunar orbit last Tuesday and successfully injected into the lunar orbit on Saturday.