India became the first country to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon's South Pole
Chandrayaan-3 had aimed to become the first spacecraft to touch down in a region of the lunar surface thought to contain deep craters with water ice.The Moon rises over a ridge in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah, USA in May 2021. Picture by: NASA/Bill Dunford"It really is about putting a base on the Moon to harvest the riches from the Moon," he said."In other words it's a land grab.
"A previous Russia mission brought back some samples [from the Moon] and they found evidence of water: 0.1%. "That creates interest and then two more pieces of evidence emerged: there's probably water on the South Pole. "If there is water that has a big effect: that means you can go and have a supply of water for your Moonbase."Imagine making fuel on the Moon that will fuel the trip to Mars?Photograph from the Apollo 8 spacecraft looking south at the large crater Goclenius in December 1968. Picture by: NASA/JSC"The Chinese... have landed probes on the far side of the Moon," he said."So we're talking trillions of litres, potentially, on the Moon.
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