Chandrayaan - 3!!

With less than 100 hours for the countdown to land on the lunar south pole of the Moon, India’s most ambitious space program has come a full circle. The space mission has come a long way from rockets transported on bicycles to now, where it is propelled by the LVM3 M4 rocket and consists of a lander ‘Vikram’ and a rover ‘Pragyan’ along with a propulsion module that acts a orbiter. 

Our only satellite, Moon, has been the subject of many explorations half a century ago and provided a new perspective to our human history with July 20^th 1969 etched in our memories for ages. The Moon is unlike any of the million satellites that orbit the many planets. 

Here’s why.

·         The Moon is 400 times less than the size of the sun and exactly 400 times closer to Earth than sun, thereby providing us with the most spectacular solar eclipse with the Moon barely swallowing up our sun for a few minutes nearly every year. This phenomenon is unparalleled and happens only on our planet.

·         We at Earth, see the same face of the Moon because the Moon’s revolution matches its rotation. In other words, Moon’s year is the same as its day. This is because its position is interlocked with Earth’s and its own gravity. This causes the bright side of the moon to have a blistering temperature of nearly 250 Fahrenheit and the dark side of the moon to plunge to a staggering negative 387 Fahrenheit.

·         The Earth and Moon exerting gravitational pull cause the oceans to bulge out and thereby creating high and low tides and also lock in Earth’s axial tilt to a manageable 23.5 degrees.

·         With all these reason’s many speculate that Moon is artificial satellite set up by a unknown force of nature or otherwise to monitor the people of earth.

·         Infact, there was a top-secret project ‘A119’ to detonate a hydrogen bomb on the moon to answer some of the mysteries and anomalies of the moon.

Whatever the reason maybe, our dear Moon has always enthralled and enchanted the space-explorers in us and the many poets describing its beauty through the ages. With the recent failure of Russia’s Luna-3 project, high hopes rest on our country to lead the way to successfully attempt to land the first rover on the south side of the Moon and set up a base for human exploration project. 

This would be first step in our superhuman effort for exploration of Mars, other planets all the way up to Nibiru/Planet X as shown in the countless Sci-Fi movies. Please join me in wishing our country all the very best for this and any future endeavors.

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