Chandrayaan 3: A glossary of words you need to know

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Read all the LIVE updates on Chandrayaan-3 here - Soft-landing: It entails controlled descent, ensuring the safe landing of the spacecraft. On reaching an altitude of about 150-100 metres, the lander using its sensors and cameras, would scan the surface to check whether there are any obstacles and then start descending to make a soft landing.

-Lander: On a spacecraft, the lander module is a part that will descend towards an astronomical body (here it is the Moon). Landers are designed and developed to make soft landings.

Also read: Story of ISRO spacecraft's Tamil connect and scientific payload -Rover: A rover is designed to explore the solid surface of a planet or other planetary-mass celestial bodies. -Moon South polar region: According to NASA, this part of the Moon is full of "mystery, science and intrigue".

At the lunar South Pole, the Sun hovers below or just above the horizon, creating temperatures upwards of 54 degrees Celsius during sunlit periods. However, some of these craters are home to permanently shadowed regions that haven’t seen sunlight in billions of years and experience temperatures as low as -203 degrees Celsius.