India has succeeded in its mission to become the fourth nation to successfully land on the moon, with PM Narendra Modi calling the feat “a victory cry of a new India”. Aside from joining the ranks of the US, China, and the Soviet Union (aka Russia), India has also become the first nation to stick the landing in the moon’s chilly southern region – no easy feat given scientists describe the area as “very uneven, full of craters and boulders”. A 6-wheeled rover will now explore the moon’s surface over 2 weeks, collecting data and images that will be sent back to Earth. The hope is to find traces of ice because that could be turned into water for future space missions.

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