Anil Bharadwaj, director, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad throughout at public discuss on moon explorations at Jawaharalal Nehru planetarium in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
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India’s next lunar mission LUPEX which will be launched in the next few years in collaboration with Japan will be a precursor to the country’s ambitious lunar sample return mission, mentioned a high house scientist.
Anil Bharadwaj, director, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), who delivered a public lecture on the Lunar Exploration Program of India on Wednesday mentioned that LUPEX will be a precursor to ISRO’s lunar sample return mission and for sending the first Indian to the moon by 2040.
“In our previous lunar missions, we have already successfully demonstrated orbiting, landing and rovering. The next step is that we should bring something back from the moon. That is why we are participating in the LUPEX mission which is going to be very useful for future sampling missions and landing of humans on the surface of the moon by 2040,” Dr Bharadwaj mentioned.
The Indo-Japanese LUPEX mission is envisaged to discover the completely shadowed areas or the darkish aspect of the moon.
The launch automobile for the mission will be a Japanese rocket, the lander system will be developed by ISRO whereas the rover by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and its touchdown level will be the south pole of the moon.
“The plan is to land very close to the polar regions and go into deep shadowed regions which are called permanently shadowed regions where sunlight never reaches. We want to see what is there in these permanently shadowed regions. This will be a three to six months mission,” Dr. Bharadwaj mentioned.
Dr. Bharadwaj added that each one the scientific payloads onboard the Chandrayaan-3 mission have labored very nicely and have introduced superb science knowledge.
