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Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by hoseja on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @08:26AM (#37234801)
* bottoms of craters on the South Pole.

Some places there get eternal sunlight instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light

Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by goku12 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:54AM (#37235911)
Assuming that CY3 landed somewhere it gets eternal sunlight, I can see how this can be an issue. Many landers and rovers have horizontal solar panels - they would work as long as the sun is reasonably above the horizon. However, the sun is always going to be near the horizon at the poles. That would not only require the solar panel to be mounted vertically, but also be oriented towards the sun somehow.