the images of the Indian probe which landed for the first time on the South Pole of the Moon

The Chandrayaan-3 probe successfully landed on the moon on Wednesday August 23 under the eyes of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was following the event from Johannesburg, where the BRICS summit is being held, announced the Indian Space Research Organization ( ISRO). The Prime Minister spoke of a “historic day”. India thus joins the very closed club of the great space powers, a few days after the crash of Luna-25, the first probe to have been launched by Russia towards the Moon since 1976, in the same region of the South Pole, little explored.

This new attempt at India’s burgeoning program comes four years after a bitter failure, when the ground crew lost contact with the craft shortly before landing on the Moon.