Chandrayaan 3: Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creates stunning sculpture of India's Moon mission | Watch
Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon's South Pole. Ahead of the groundbreaking landing on Moon, Padma Shri recipient Sudarsan Pattnaik created a sand art on Chandrayaan-3 Mission on Wednesday. The sand art included a national flag, ISRO's logo, rocket in which Chandrayaan-3 was launched, Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft close to the Moon and ‘Jay Ho with All the best Chandrayaan' written on the innovative design.
Today, the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is poised to make its historic touchdown on the Moon's surface, marking a pivotal moment for India's space exploration endeavors. The live telecast of the landing operations will begin at 5:20 PM IST on Wednesday. Live actions of landing will be available on the ISRO website, its YouTube channel, Facebook, and public broadcaster DD National TV from 5:27 PM IST today.
The landing of Chandrayaan-3 comes just days after Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years, destined for the same region, crashed on the lunar surface. But former Indian space chief K. Sivan said the latest photos transmitted back home by the lander gave every indication that the final leg of the voyage would succeed.
"It is giving some encouragement that we will be able to achieve the landing mission without any problem," Sivan told AFP news agency. Sivan said India's efforts to explore the relatively unmapped lunar south pole would make a "very, very important" contribution to scientific knowledge. A day ahead of the landing, the ISRO said on social media the landing was proceeding on schedule and that its mission control complex was "buzzed with energy & excitement".
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