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- The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has said that The Chandrayaan 2 mission would land a rover on Moon’s South Pole. If ISRO manages to successfully execute this, India will be the first country to land a rover on the moon’s South Pole.
- Some regions of the lunar South Pole have permanently shadowed craters with some of the lowest temperatures in the Solar System. It is of special interest to scientists because of the occurrence of water ice in permanently shadowed areas around it.
- The mission is set to be launched any time between July 5 and July 16, 2019. The moon landing is likely to around 6thSeptember, 2019. Unlike the first lunar mission Chandrayaan 1, which was launched using PSLV rocket and involved only orbiting the moon, Chandrayaan 2 would attempt a soft landing the lunar surface.
- Chandrayaan 2 is a totally indigenous mission. It comprises of an Orbiter, Lander named ‘Vikram’ and Rover named ‘Pragyan’.
- The orbiter will circle the moon and provide information about its surface, while the lander will make a soft landing on the surface and send out the rover. The payloads will collect scientific information on lunar topography, mineralogy, elemental abundance, lunar exosphere and signatures of hydroxyl and water-ice.
- It will launch aboard a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III, (GSLV -MK III) rocket. The GSLV-MkIII is a three-stage heavy lift launch vehicle that has been designed to carry four-tonne class satellites into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).



