India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission has ended its first phase of operations, with the Pragyan rover and Vikram lander entering sleep mode to see out a long, long lunar night. Launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on July 14, Chandrayaan-3 released its Vikram lander on August 17. The probe spent over a week slowly descending to touchdown on the Moon's southernmost tip, marking India as the first country ever to land near the Moon's south pole, and the fourth country to successfully land on the satellite at all after the US, Russia, and China.

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