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Explainer: Why are countries racing to the moon's heavily cratered south pole?
India's space agency landed a spacecraft on the moon's south pole on Wednesday, a mission that will advance the country's space ambitions and expand knowledge of lunar ice, potentially one of the moon's most valuable resources.