Chandrayaan-3 landed on possibly oldest craters of Moon, say researchers

The scientists, including those from the Physical Research Laboratory and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Ahmedabad, said that the crater where Chandrayaan-3 landed was formed during the Nectarian period, about 3.85 billion years ago.

According to S Vijayan, an associate professor in the Planetary Sciences Division, Physical Research Laboratory, the mission's Pragyan rover has gone to a place on the Moon that no other missions has visited.

"Chandrayaan-3 landing site is a unique geological setting where no other missions have gone. The images from the mission's Pragyan rover are the first on-site ones of the Moon at this latitude. They reveal how the Moon evolved," he told PTI.