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As Indians wait with bated breath to see Chandrayaan-3’s soft landing on the Moon’s forbidding south pole, becoming the first country in the world to do so, renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik shared a sand art created by his students to wish the mission a success.
Pattnaik took to X, formerly Twitter, to share a photo of the sand sculpture with the words “All The Best Chandrayaan” and “Jai Ho ISRO” written along with a space shuttle and the Moon. The sand art was made in Odisha’s Puri beach.
“ALL THE BEST #Chandrayan3 My students created a sand art on #Chandrayaan 3 with the message “Jai Ho @isro, at Puri beach in Odisha,” Pattnaik wrote.
In another post, Pattnaik said he created a miniature sand sculpture in only 45 minutes using 25 kg sand to wish the Chandrayaan-3 mission a success.
“Jai Ho @isro all the best! My miniature sand sculpture at Denver, Colorado in the USA, with message “Jai Ho “ for wishing successful lunar landing of #Chandrayaan-3. I have used 25 KG sand in 45 minutes to create this art,” Pattnaik shared.
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 mission is preparing to land later on Wednesday at approximately 6.04 pm IST. The Chandrayaan-3 mission is the follow-up to the Chandrayaan-2 mission of 2019, when the Vikram lander crashed into the lunar surface. The primary objective of the mission is to showcase the space agency’s capability to complete a soft landing on the Moon.
If the mission succeeds, India will join a small and exclusive club of countries that have managed to soft land on the Moon. So far, the club has three members—the United States, the Soviet Union and China. Russia made its first attempt to land on the Moon since 1976 (when it was part of the Soviet Union) with the Luna-25 mission.
Luna-25 met the same fate as Chandrayaan-2 as Russian Space Agency announced Sunday that the spacecraft crashed into the lunar surface. Interestingly, Luna-25 was aiming to become the first mission to land on the Moon’s south pole — the target of both Chandrayaan-2 and Chandrayaan-3.
