Why Chandrayaan-3 landed near the moon's south pole

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https://news.yahoo.com/why-chandrayaan-3-landed-near-100001739.html

I read the article and the best I can figure:

(1) Water
(2) Being the first to say you did
(3) It's not the Rooshki Luna-25 which augered in a few days ago.

Landing on Luna Blessed Luna is harder than it looks. Congrats to the India Team.

Yours,