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Chandrayaan-3 landed near the lunar south pole

India's 2023 mission set a lander and rover down at high southern latitude Vikram touched down in August 2023 at roughly 69 degrees south, the first landing that close to the lunar south pole. The Pragyan rover measured soil temperature and detected sulphur in the regolith. The region matters because permanently shadowed craters nearby are thought to hold water ice. It sits in Mondo's space collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: India's 2023 mission set a lander and rover down at high southern latitude. The figure is taken from NASA Science, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a space fact?: Yes. It sits on the Space shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.