NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is about to embark on a mission to explore the Chandrayaan-2 landing site on the moon. LRO has been orbiting the moon since 2009, but this will be its first mission to the site of the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, which was India’s second mission to the moon. The mission will provide an opportunity to determine the current state of the spacecraft and analyze the lunar environment around it. It will also take images of the site to help scientists better understand the moon’s geology and to better plan for future lunar exploration. This is sure to be a groundbreaking mission and will have significant implications for future lunar exploration.

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source: Phys.org