An insight into India's Moon mission–Chandrayan-3: The first nation to land on the southernmost polar region of the Moon

NJ Kanu, E Gupta, GC Verma - Planetary and Space Science, 2024 - Elsevier
With the mission's completion, India became only the fourth nation in history to successfully
perform a soft landing on the Moon and the first nation to land a spacecraft close to the lunar …

Simulating lunar highlands regolith profiles on Earth to inform infrastructure development and ISRU activities on the Moon

MP Lucas, CR Neal, JM Long-Fox, D Britt - Acta Astronautica, 2024 - Elsevier
Lunar exploration and infrastructure development near the Moon's south pole, and at other
future lunar settlements, demand a detailed understanding of the geotechnical properties …

Polarimetric characterization of Chandrayaan-3 landing site near lunar south pole using high resolution Chandrayaan-2 DFSAR data

T Chakraborty, DK Pandey, R Mehra… - Planetary and Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Chandrayaan-3 (CH3) Vikram lander presents an unique opportunity to study
the radar scattering behavior of the landing site as well as human-made dihedral structure …