{"id":85282,"date":"2019-07-15T16:15:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T10:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2019-07-15T16:15:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T10:45:49","slug":"the-milestones-of-chandrayaan-2-indias-second-lunar-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-milestones-of-chandrayaan-2-indias-second-lunar-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"The milestones of Chandrayaan-2, India\u2019s second lunar probe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Chandrayaan 2, India\u2019s second lunar mission, was\nscheduled to be launched on 15 July from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at\nSriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. However, the launch got delayed due to technical\nissues.<\/li><li>Chandrayaan 2 is ISRO\u2019s first attempt to make a\nsoft landing on the Moon. If successful, India will join the US, the former\nSoviet Union, and China\u2014the only three other nations to have soft landed on\nmoon.<\/li><li>Chandrayaan-2 will comprise of an Orbiter,\nLander named \u2018Vikram\u2019 and Rover named \u2018Pragyan\u2019<\/li><li>The orbiter will circle the moon and provide\ninformation about its surface, while the lander will make a soft landing on the\nsurface and send out the rover. The rover will be used mostly for in situ\nexperiments.<\/li><li>The entire lifecycle of the Lander and Rover\nwill be one lunar day, which is equivalent to 14 earth days while the Orbiter\nwill continue for one year.<\/li><li>The soft landing on lunar South Pole was planned\nfor September 6<sup>th<\/sup>. The date had been chosen because the landing site\nwill remain well illuminated by sunlight over the next one month while the\nLander and Rover would work and collect data. Also, there is no lunar eclipse\nduring this period.<\/li><li>Chandrayaan-2 will carry out extensive\nthree-dimensional mapping of the topography of the lunar South Pole region. It will\nalso determine its elemental composition and seismic activity. If successful, India\nwill be the first country to soft land on lunar South Pole. So far, all the landing\non the moon have taken place in the equatorial region<\/li><li>The mission would also try to assess the\nabundance and distribution of water on the lunar surface.<\/li><li>Chandrayaan-2 will launch aboard a\nGeosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III, (GSLV -MK III) rocket- the\nmost powerful rocket ISRO has built. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandrayaan 2, India\u2019s second lunar mission, was scheduled to be launched on 15 July from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. However, the launch got delayed due to technical issues. Chandrayaan 2 is ISRO\u2019s first attempt to make a soft landing on the Moon. If successful, India will join the US,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-milestones-of-chandrayaan-2-indias-second-lunar-probe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The milestones of Chandrayaan-2, India\u2019s second lunar probe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2289],"class_list":["post-85282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-chandrayaan-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}