Dark side of the Moon: Chandrayaan-2 mission will enter uncharted territory, offer great scientific insight | Explained News, The Indian Express

Dark side of the Moon: Chandrayaan-2 mission will enter uncharted territory, offer great scientific insight | Explained News, The Indian Express

Reported by Amitabh Sinha |Edited by Explained Desk |New Delhi |Updated: June 13, 2019 4:01:01 pm

Dark side of the Moon: Chandrayaan-2 mission will enter uncharted territory, offer great scientific insight

The Chandrayaan-2 mission has taken a long way coming, considering that its predecessor, Chandrayaan-1, an Orbiter mission, had been sent way back in 2008.

Chandrayaan-2 will make a landing at a site where no earlier mission has gone, near the South pole of the moon.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has finally announced the date of its much-awaited Chandrayaan-2 mission to the moon. The mission will be launched on July 15, and its lander and rover will touch down on the moon’s surface either on September 5 or 6.