{"id":170661,"date":"2023-08-26T21:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T02:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/chandrayaan-3-rover-rolls-onto-moons-surface-as-ecstatic-india-celebrates"},"modified":"2023-08-26T21:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T02:22:50","slug":"chandrayaan-3-rover-rolls-onto-moons-surface-as-ecstatic-india-celebrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/chandrayaan-3-rover-rolls-onto-moons-surface-as-ecstatic-india-celebrates","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan-3 rover rolls onto moon\u2019s surface as ecstatic India celebrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chandrayaan-3-rover-rolls-onto-moons-surface-as-ecstatic-india-celebrates2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, Aug 24 (Reuters) \u2014 The moon rover of India\u2019s Chandrayaan-3 exited the spacecraft on Thursday to begin exploring the surface of the lunar south pole and conducting experiments, and was braced for new challenges, the space agency chief said.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/india\/india-counts-down-crucial-moon-landing-2023-08-23\/\" class=\"\">landed<\/a> on the unexplored south pole of the moon on Wednesday, making India the first country to achieve this feat just days after Russia\u2019s <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/russias-moon-mission-falters-after-problem-entering-pre-landing-orbit-2023-08-20\/\" class=\"\">Luna-25 failed<\/a> in a similar mission.<\/p>\n<p>The soft, textbook touchdown by the lander after a failed attempt in 2019 sparked widespread jubilation and celebration in the world\u2019s most populous country. The media hailed the historic landing as India\u2019s biggest scientific feat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Aug 24 (Reuters) \u2014 The moon rover of India\u2019s Chandrayaan-3 exited the spacecraft on Thursday to begin exploring the surface of the lunar south pole and conducting experiments, and was braced for new challenges, the space agency chief said. The spacecraft landed on the unexplored south pole of the moon on Wednesday, making [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170661","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}