Shows a spacecraft making a soft landing on the moon’s south pole
Search engine giant Google on Thursday celebrated India’s success in its third Moon mission Chandrayaan-3 with a special animated doodle.
India scripted history on Wednesday with its touchdown on the lunar south pole, making it the first nation to land on the uncharted surface.
Search engine giant Google on Thursday celebrated India’s success in its third Moon mission Chandrayaan-3 with a special animated doodle.
India scripted history on Wednesday with its touchdown on the lunar south pole, making it the first nation to land on the uncharted surface.
The graphically dynamic doodle depicts letters of ‘GOOGLE’ floating in outer space amid twinkling stars, with an animated ‘moon’ forming the second ‘O’ in the sequence. It also shows a spacecraft making a soft landing on the moon’s south pole.
“Today’s doodle celebrates the first-ever landing on the moon’s south pole! The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota Range, Andhra Pradesh, India on July 14, 2023 and successfully touched down near the lunar south pole region on August 23, 2023,” read the note on Thursday’s Google Doodle.
