Chandrayaan-3 : New Findings
New findings based on data from India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest that water ice on the Moon may be present beyond its polar regions.
Chandrayaan-3 Recent Findings:
- New data from Chandrayaan-3 indicates possible water-ice deposits beyond the Moon’s polar regions.
- A study by the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, using data from Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) instrument, supports this finding.
- ChaSTE measured a 60°C temperature difference between the lunar surface and 10 cm below it, revealing that the Moon’s surface layer is highly non-conductive, providing insights into its composition and thermal properties.
- Chandrayaan-3 was the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) second attempt, after Chandrayaan-2, to achieve a successful landing and rover operation on the Moon’s surface.
- It was launched using ISRO’s LVM3 rocket, designed to place modules into the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) at a lower cost.
