India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon lander beams back its first photos from the mysterious south pole

INDIA’S successful Moon mission has sent back its first images from the south pole after a historic landing on Wednesday.

The country’s Chandrayaan-3 mission became the first lander to successfully settle near the little-explored far side of the lunar surface.

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Chandrayaan-3’s first photo from the surface of the south pole[/caption]

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Experts also revealed photos from the perilous landing[/caption]

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released a series of remarkable shots three hours after touchdown.

“It shows a portion of Chandrayaan-3’s landing site,” experts said.

“Seen also is a leg and its accompanying shadow.”

Fortunately Chandrayaan-3 chose a “relatively flat region” to arrive on.

The ISRO also released images from the Lander Horizontal Velocity Camera’s as it made its perilous descent, often known as the “15 minutes of terror”.

On Thursday morning, the space agency gave an exciting update about the mission.

The Chandrayaan-3 Rover has now exited from the lander to go for its first walk around.

The mission is the first time India has managed to successfully carry out a soft landing on the Moon.

It’s only one of four, alongside the US, the former Soviet Union, and China to ever make the difficult journey.

A similar attempt to reach the south pole by India in 2019 ended in disaster.

Earlier this week a Russian mission to the south pole failed after its tech dramatically crashed into pieces.

It was supposed to be Russia’s big return to the Moon after 50 years.

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Previous missions to the Moon[/caption]

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