New Delhi: After missions to the Moon and Mars, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has turned its attention to Venus and is collaborating with Japan to explore the Moon's shadow side.

Anil Bhardwaj, director of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, said during a presentation on ISRO's upcoming missions at the Akash Tatva Sammelan here that the space agency also intends to send a probe to Mars.

Bhardwaj claimed that he was in discussions with JAXA about sending a lunar rover to probe the Moon's permanent shadow region.

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As per the original plans, a Japanese rocket will launch the ISRO-built lunar lander and rover into orbit with a planned landing site near the Moon's south pole. The rover will then move to the part of the Moon that is always in shadow and never gets sunlight, according to Bharadwaj.

He claimed that the exploration of the area was fascinating because what persisted in the PSR region was something that was frozen for aeons.

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According to Bharadwaj, Aditya L-1 will be a special mission in which a 400 kg class payload-carrying satellite will be placed in an orbit around the Sun to continuously observe the star from a place called Lagrange point. L-1.

1.5 million kilometers will separate the orbit from Earth, and it will study coronal heating, solar wind acceleration, the onset of coronal mass ejections, flares and near-Earth space weather.

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Bhardwaj predicted that missions to Venus and the Moon with JAXA are likely to come after the Aditya L-1 and Chandrayaan-3 missions, which will be prioritized early next year.