Chandrayaan-3: Historic India Moon mission sends new photos of lunar surface

India's space agency has released the first images of the Moon taken by the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which entered lunar orbit on Saturday. The images show craters on lunar surface getting larger and larger as the spacecraft draws closer. Chandrayaan-3's lander and rover are due to reach the surface on 23 August. If successful, India will be the first country to perform a controlled "soft landing" near the south pole. It will also become only the fourth to achieve a soft landing on the Moon.

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lunar 月亮女神卢娜，月亮的意思，lun-表示月亮就是来源于此

crater 环形山；陨石坑

rover 流浪者；漂泊者

pole 极地（the North Pole 北极）；杆（tent pole 帐篷支架）