New Delhi – Despite the recent failure of its Chandrayaan-2 mission, theIndian space agency is set to make another attempt at the moon, this timein collaboration with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

The Japanese embassy in New Delhi confirmed on Monday said the twocountry’s space agencies will launch a lunar probe in the early 2020s.

“JAXA and ISRO are planning a Japan-India joint lunar polar explorationthat will be launched in early 2020s”, the embassy said in a statementissued on the Vikram Lander that has been finally located on the Moon’ssurface just a day after ISRO lost contact with it.

While applauding the Indian space agency ISRO and its scientists for theirefforts with the Chandrayaan-2, the Japanese embassy said: “We areconfident India will continue its contributions to lunar exploration alongwhich Japan proudly walks.”

A rover is most likely to be landed at the South Pole of the moonlinkby2023 in order to excavate the dark side of the moon in a bid to discoverwater beneath the lunar surface.