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India's Chandrayaan-3 lands at Moon's south pole

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on the lunar south pole for the first time, after the Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 touched down on 23 August. The mission was the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) second attempt to land on the Moon, after Chandrayaan-2 crashed into the

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