'ISRO Chairman Dr. Somanath's leadership truly created history and we extend our hearty congratulations to him and his team,' Venugopal said on X, formerly Twitter.
India scripted history as the ambitious third Moon mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) touched down on the Moon's south pole, propelling the country to an exclusive club of four and making it the first nation to land on the uncharted surface.
A lunar orbiter has spied spacecraft and astronaut tracks on the Moon left behind almost 40 years ago.
After Chandrayaan-3 touched down on the Moon, the Congress on Wednesday said it is a collective success of every Indian and ISRO's achievement reflects a saga of continuity and is truly fantastic.
India's own Moon Impact Probe on board the country's maiden unmanned lunar craft Chandrayaan-I had also detected evidence of water on the moon in a finding confirmed by US space agency NASA which too had an instrument onboard Chandrayaan-I.
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Having conquered the moon long time ago, the NASA now plans to send astronauts to Mars -- in what is called a journey which will cover hundreds of millions of miles and no less than two-and-a-half years of roundtrip.The way to Mars, it seems, is through the moon, says a report in CBS News.
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"This is, again, a very serious, important issue to which international community must pay attention on an urgent basis," he remarked. "We need to act on the basis of several principles, that this global warming is a global issue."
ISRO on Monday said a two-way communication between the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter and Chandrayaan-3's Lunar Module has been established.
Cernan, a captain in the United States Navy, left his mark on the history of exploration by flying three times in space, twice to the moon.
Indian space scientists will begin satellite integration for its moon mission Chandrayaan-1 this month to ascertain that the country's first-of-its-kind venture next year is on track.
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A phenomenon that changes the moon's appearance from annular (the moon appears visually smaller and is not able to fully cover the sun) to total (when the moon completely covers the sun) and back as the moon's shadow moves across the earth's surface.
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The four astronauts are -- Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair, Angad Prathap, Ajit Krishnan, and Shubhanshu Shukla -- Modi said at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) at Thumba near the Kerala state capital.
Indian Space Research Organisation's plan to soft land Chandrayaan-2's Vikram module on the Lunar surface did not go as per script in the early hours of Saturday, with the lander losing communication with ground stations during its final descent.
Scientists at the American space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration have claimed that Saturn's moon Enceladus 'may contain life,' after they discovered new evidence suggesting presence of 'liquid water' beneath its surface.
Ex-ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said the scientists at space agency have achieved this historic success by getting a salary one-fifth of the scientists in the developed world.
Four decades after America's last landing on the Moon, new images from National Aeronautics and Space Administration's camera have shown that all flags except one planted during Apollo missions are still standing and waving, despite the harsh lunar climate.
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency on Thursday revealed that India's maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-I spacecraft had traced water molecules on the lunar surface of the moon.
Commenting that running a country is not a play for those born with a golden spoon, Modi said, "They have gone from Amethi and will go even from Rae Bareli."
The much-hyped moon show that had been expected to accompany the impact, however, turned out to be a flop, as no billowing plumes of dust and ice were visible through backyard telescopes or on NASA TV.
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China's troubled moon rover Yutu or Jade Rabbit has come back to life from a troubled dormancy although experts are still trying to figure out the cause of its abnormality, officials said on Thursday.
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"This week's full moon (October 25/26) will be biggest full moon of 2007," NASA experts said. The event coincides with the China's Lunar spacecraft 'Chang' (Moon Goddess) reaching the moon, which will give three-dimensional pictures of the moon's surface once it starts orbiting around it. Experts cautioned against viewing the full moon through telescope without an appropriate filter as it would affect the eyes.
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China's first lunar rover on Saturday successfully landed on the moon, making the communist giant one of three world powers to make a "soft landing" as part of an ambitious programme that aims to put a Chinese astronaut on the moon.
Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch during her briefing on Friday was asked to comment on the successful soft-landing of the Chandrayaan-3 mission on the Moon.
A visibly emotional Modi addressed scientists at the Indian Space Research organisation's command centre in Bengaluru, who were involved in the Chandrayaan-3 mission and lauded them for their efforts.
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