India have landed on the moon's south pole

[Jenkins]

 

[Jameshow]

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What did they order?
I'll have the chicken tikka masala!!

 

[Jenkins]

What did they order?
I'll have the chicken tikka masala!!

You know you've just opened the floodgates for a load of space/Indian meal puns don't you.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Spice Race is hotting up.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

I can't help thinking that the moon landing is not going to help the vast population of India one jot.

Reminded me of this - probably too political for here

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[Ming the Merciless]

Anyone know what science they plan to do whilst there?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Anyone know what science they plan to do whilst there?

So they can compare how similar a Poppadom looks to the moon?

Seriously though, it all about finding water that can be used for future missions to Mars, etc, apparently.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Where's @Nihal when you need him?

 

[Drago]

Anyone know what science they plan to do whilst there?

Not a great deal. The mission is mainly a technical demonstration.

 

[T4tomo]

Alas, there is no dark side or the moon. This is why the album has always annoyed me greatly.

Parts of the southern pole end are in permanent shadow, that's why they are looking for ice there to answer @Mings question, does that count as the dark side of the moon? The "side" we cant see is indeed not dark, nor made of cheese one suspects.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

nor made of cheese one suspects.

Au contraire. I refer you to Wallace and Gromit

 

[Tenkaykev]

Parts of the southern pole end are in permanent shadow, that's why they are looking for ice there to answer @Mings question, does that count as the dark side of the moon? The "side" we cant see is indeed not dark, nor made of cheese one suspects.

The problem being that they haven't landed at or near the South Pole and nowhere close to the craters that are in perpetual darknes where the water ice is expected to be found. From the Ars Technica news story:

India's Vikram lander is now operating on the near side of the Moon at about 69 degrees south latitude, closer to the lunar south pole than any prior mission. All of NASA's Apollo missions, which had astronauts, explored locations closer to the Moon's equator, as have China's robotic landing vehicles. But the Vikram lander didn't land far enough south to explore permanently shadowed craters where vast deposits of water ice may be present.

 

[Oldhippy]

But the brilliance of being able to do it at on a comparatively tiny budget compared to others shows the potential of so many new discoveries for the human race generally if we would just stop being d*cks to each other and making it one long 'mine's longer than yours' competition.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Is there any evidence yet that this landing was faked?

 

[Threevok]

Is there any evidence yet that this landing was faked?

I don't know, but there's already a Bolllywood film in the making - called Paprika One