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India's Chandrayaan-3 becomes the first space mission to land near the south pole of the Moon

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ISRO took the fuel efficient route. That's why a mission launched in July is landing now. Russia's crashed lander reached moon in ~13 days. They are already quite concious of spending their research grants wisely.

I'm surprised by these people who bring up their hatred filled political agenda at every opportunity. Why don't you go start an India bashing circle jerk community or instance and please remain there.

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No one wants to see children starve. We can discuss that if you make a separate post about it backed with a reference to facts.

Hijacking this and every other post about Chandrayaan with anti-India politics is not the way. This post is about a scientific milestone and let all discussions be regarding that. Show some courtesy and you'll get better discussion on the points that you bring up.

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Live updates: Chandrayaan-3 successfully lands on Moon's south pole

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From a Reuters article:

The Chandrayaan-3 is aimed at the lunar south pole, a region with water ice, or frozen water, that could be a source of oxygen, fuel and water for future moon missions or a more permanent moon colony.

If it lands successfully, the Chandrayaan-3 is expected to remain functional for two weeks, running a series of experiments including a spectrometer analysis of the mineral composition of the lunar surface.

Edit: This is going to be the site of US' Artemis-III mission as well. So NASA would be very keen to know about the findings out of this rover and lander.

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Should we defederate from Hexbear?

My personal belief is to not defederate unless they are breaking rules/harassing people. It's fine to express one's opinion respectfully even if it's a different one. Otherwise, soon Fediverse will be divided into silos (kind of similar to what the recommendation algos on social media that drive people into echo chamber of followers/posts).

I read somewhere that they don't have downvotes on their instance, so they have a habit of leaving comments.