India Becomes First Nation to Land Craft on Moon's South Pole

New Delhi - India successfully placed a lander in the moon's southern polar region Wednesday evening, making history as it became the first country to touch down on an uncharted part of the lunar surface.

Although the United States, Russia and China have landed around the moon's equator, no country has so far made a soft landing on the more challenging rough terrain of the south pole.

Scientists clapped, ch