Discussion
Chandrayaan-2 was a mixture of success and set-back. Which of the following statements are applicable to Chandrayaan-2 mission ?
(i) It aimed at exploring south pole of the moon.
(ii) To further study the evidence of water molecule found by Chandrayaan-1.
(iii) To soft land Vikram lander on the lunar surface and to relay information to earth.
(iv) The location of crash landing of Vikram has later been identified.
Answer: D
All four statements apply, so the answer is (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv).
Chandrayaan-2 was launched on 22 July 2019. It was aimed at the little-explored region near the Moon's south pole (i), and among its goals was to study further the evidence of water that Chandrayaan-1's instruments had found in 2009 (ii). Its Vikram lander was meant to soft-land and relay data to Earth (iii), but it lost contact and crash-landed on 7 September 2019, while the orbiter continued to work.
The crash site was later identified: in December 2019 NASA confirmed Vikram's impact point and debris from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images, after a lead from an Indian engineer (iv). So options leaving out any statement are incomplete.
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