Beijing: A prominent Chinese scientist has cast doubt on the location of India’s landing site on the moon, saying that such a site is not located in or near the South Pole region.
According to global media reports, tensions between India and China have increased after the successful landing of India’s Chandrayaan-3 on the South Pole of the Moon, surpassing Beijing’s previous record.
Ouyang Xiuyang, considered the founder of China’s lunar exploration program, told the Chinese publication Science Times that the Chandrayaan 3 landing site on the moon at 69 degrees south latitude is far from the pole, between 88.5 and 90 degrees. Is.
The scientist said that if we talk about it in terms of the Earth, 69 degrees will be within the South Antarctic Circle, but in terms of the Moon, it is very close to the pole. The landing site indicated by India is actually 619 km from the polar region. (385 miles) away.
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