Moon water?
Major powers such as the United States, China, India, Japan and the European Union have been probing the Moon in recent years. A Japanese lunar landing failed last year and an Israeli mission failed in 2019.
No country has made a soft landing on the South Pole. An Indian mission, Chandrayaan-2, failed in 2019.
The rough terrain makes it difficult to land there, but the rewards of discovering water ice could be historic: Large chunks could be used to extract fuel and oxygen, as well as drinking water.
“From the point of view of science, the most important task, simply put, is to land where no one has landed,” said Maxim Litvak, head of the Luna-25 scientific instrument planning group.
“There are signs of ice in the soil of the Luna-25 landing area; this can be seen from the data from orbit,” he said. He said Luna-25 will work and collect samples on the Moon for at least one Earth year. ,