ISRO plans to return to Mars and work with Japan to examine the moon’s dark side: ISRO plans to return to Mars: The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is turning its attention to Venus and after visiting the moon and Mars, it is collaborating with Japan to examine the dark side of the moon. ISRO‘s next mission at the Akash Tattva conference here was that the space agency also intended to send a probe to Mars.
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ISRO plans to return to Mars:
Japanese rockets will send the ISRO-built lunar lander and rover into orbit with a planned landing site near the moon’s South Pole. “The rover will then move to the area of the moon that is always in shadow and never receives sunlight.”
The examination of the area was fascinating since anything that had persisted in the PSR zone was analogous to something that had been frozen for aeons. Aditya L-1 will be a special mission, deploying a 400kg-class satellite carrying payloads in orbit around the sun to constantly view the star from a location known as Lagrange Point L-1. 5 million kilometres would separate the orbit from Earth, and it would study coronal heating, solar wind acceleration, the beginning of coronal mass ejections, flares, and near-Earth space weather. The Aditya L-1 and Chandrayaan-3 missions would be prioritised, as early as next year, the missions to Venus and the moon with JAXA were expected to follow. The lunar rover on board Chandrayaan-3 needed to be successful because it will be used again on a mission with JAXA.
