India is preparing to create history today. This country launched the Chandrayaan-3 mission on July 14, which is about to land on the lunar surface around 6 pm today. The American Space Agency NASA (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are also helping ISRO to make this mission successful and for safe landing.
In fact, in the report of The Hindu, Ramesh Chellathurai, ground operation engineer of the European Space Operation Center Darmstadt, says, 'ESA has been helping India since the launch of Chandrayaan-3. He told that the European Space Agency is tracking Chandrayaan in its orbit using two ground stations in the ESTRACK network and receiving telemetry data from the spacecraft and giving this information to ISRO.
Now understand how ESA is helping ISRO
Ramesh Chellathurai says that when the Chandrayaan-3 mission started, ESA's 15 meter antenna in French Guiana and the UK's 32 meter antenna at Gonhilly Earth Station were selected to help the mission due to being equipped with high technology. Was. Chellathurai explains that both these stations have been with the Chandrayaan-3 mission since the beginning. Due to these two stations, a complete channel is available between a complete mission operation team and Chandrayaan-3 satellite in Bengaluru.
ESA's 35-metre-tall antenna at New Norcia, Australia, and the third ground station in the ESTRACK network, will help India track and establish communication with the lander module during Chandrayaan-3's landing.
Ramesh Chellathurai told that this telemetry will be used to know whether a soft landing took place after reaching the lunar surface at the time of landing. This type of back-up support is very common during critical moments of a space mission, such as landing. After a successful landing, the data collected by the mission's rover will be sent to ground stations through the lander module. This data will be caught by the antenna of Kourou and Gonahili and then it will be received and sent to the Mission Operations Center in Bengaluru.
The eyes of the whole world are fixed
Luna-25 crashed while landing on the same surface of the moon 2 days ago. After which the eyes of the whole world are focused on Mission Chandrayaan-3. This place is very different and mysterious from that part of the moon where till now space missions have been sent by countries around the world.
How dangerous is the south pole of the moon
Most of the missions that have been done on the moon so far have happened in its equatorial region. Where the land is flat as compared to the South Pole. While there are many volcanoes on the South Pole and the land here is also quite bumpy. From the pictures sent by Chandrayaan-3 of the south pole of the moon, it seems that there are many pits and rough land there.
There is a crater about 2500 kilometers wide and eight kilometers deep on the south pole of the moon, which is considered to be the oldest impact crater in the solar system. Impact craters are those pits in any planet or satellite that are formed by the collisions of a large meteorite or planets.
Explaining the importance of reaching that place, Noah Petro, Project Scientist of the American Space Agency NASA, Chandrayaan-3 Te, says, "By landing on the pole, you can start to understand this crater and its importance." At the same time, according to NASA, the Sun remains below or slightly above the horizon on the South Pole of the Moon.
What a treasure is hidden there
One question is in everyone's mind that lakhs of crores are being spent to go to the moon, but what is the reason behind it. Actually the place where India's Chandrayaan is about to land is on the southern end of the Moon. The ice has been frozen there for millions of years. It is possible that there are some such elements in the soil which are exactly the same till today. Along with this, if there is ice there, then there can be water too. There can be a possibility of life if there is water. Scientists from all over the world, including America, are also dreaming of establishing a settlement on the moon. In this context, whatever Chandrayaan-3 will discover will be important for the whole world. With this, the data of Chandrayaan-3 can be very important for those countries which cannot afford to go to the moon. India can also bench this data to such countries.
According to an estimate, if Price Water House Cooper is to be believed, by 2040 the Moon economy will be up to 42 thousand crore dollars. Not only this, many big companies of the world are also preparing to send cargo to the moon. Not only this, there is also a possibility of mining ores on the moon. Overall, Moon economy can open a big way and the king of this market will be the one who has the information.
Why no country has been able to reach this area till date
There are big mountains and many pits (craters) on the South Pole of the Moon. There is very little sunlight here. The temperature of the parts of the moon on which sunlight falls is usually up to 54 degree Celsius. But where there is no light, the temperature there reaches -248 degree Celsius. NASA has even claimed that there are many such craters on the South Pole which have been immersed in darkness for billions of years and the sunlight never fell here.
What is the purpose of Chandrayaan-3
The first objective of Mission Chandrayaan-3 is to make Vikram Lander a safe and soft landing on the lunar surface. The second objective of Chandrayaan-3 is to show Pragyan Rover running on the lunar surface and its third objective is to conduct scientific experiments.
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