{"id":169497,"date":"2023-08-11T22:22:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T03:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/chandrayaan-3-vs-russias-luna-25-race-to-moons-south-pole-position"},"modified":"2023-08-11T22:22:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T03:22:37","slug":"chandrayaan-3-vs-russias-luna-25-race-to-moons-south-pole-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/chandrayaan-3-vs-russias-luna-25-race-to-moons-south-pole-position","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan-3 vs Russia\u2019s Luna-25; Race to Moon\u2019s south pole position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chandrayaan-3-vs-russias-luna-25-race-to-moons-south-pole-position.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia successfully launched its inaugural moon-landing spacecraft on Friday in 47 years. The mission aims to achieve the distinction of being the first country to achieve a gentle landing on the lunar south pole, an area thought to contain valuable reservoirs of water ice.<\/p>\n<p>As per a report by <i>Reuters<\/i>, Russia\u2019s recent lunar mission, it\u2019s inaugural one since 1976, is in a competitive race with India, which sent its Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander to space last month.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, it\u2019s part of a larger competition involving the United States and China, both of whom have well-developed lunar exploration initiatives that focus on the southern region of the Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia successfully launched its inaugural moon-landing spacecraft on Friday in 47 years. The mission aims to achieve the distinction of being the first country to achieve a gentle landing on the lunar south pole, an area thought to contain valuable reservoirs of water ice. As per a report by Reuters, Russia\u2019s recent lunar mission, it\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}