“Knowing that it can be done doesn’t make it easy,” said Prof Martin Barstow, director of strategic partnerships at Space Park Leicester. “Landing at the poles is much more difficult than landing at the equator. You’ve got to get into a #PolarOrbit to release the lander and nobody has done that before. The #US hasn’t landed anything at the poles on the #Moon.” #Chandrayaan3

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