Russia, in a significant space milestone, successfully launched the Luna-25 mission on Friday, marking its first endeavor to reach the moon in nearly half a century. The mission aims to land a spacecraft on the rocky lunar south pole, paving the way for future lunar exploration and the establishment of a moon base.
One of the primary objectives of the Luna-25 mission is to search for water and study its abundance on the lunar south pole. This region is believed to potentially contain vast amounts of water in the form of ice located in the shadowed areas of mountain ridges.
Olga Zakutnyaya, a scientist from the Space Research Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences, expressed the importance of this mission in confirming the presence of water and understanding its quantities.
Luna-25 will take approximately five days to travel to the moon and is scheduled to orbit it for five to seven days before attempting a landing near Boguslawsky Crater in the south polar region. The spacecraft is set to touch down on the lunar surface on August 21, as reported by the Russian state news agency TASS.
Yury Borisov, the Director General of Roscosmos, emphasized that the goals of the Luna-25 mission are purely peaceful in nature. Apart from searching for water, the spacecraft will also study the effects of space rays and electromagnetic emissions on the lunar surface.
Maxim Litvak, a scientist from the Russia Space Research Institute, highlighted the significance of exploring the lunar polar regions. He explained that the presence of ice in the soil, detected through orbit data, makes this area of great interest for the scientific community. Unlike previous missions that landed in equatorial regions, Luna-25 aims to investigate uncharted territory.
While the United States remains the only country to have successfully landed astronauts on the moon, other nations are also venturing into lunar exploration. India launched its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft in July, entering lunar orbit in August. Additionally, China has announced plans to send its first manned mission to the moon by 2030.
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