Chandrayaan-3 Updates: List of findings on the Moon

Aug 30, 2023, 10:31 IST

Tanisha Rajput

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On the weekend, Indian PM Narendra Modi announced that the point where India’s lunar space craft soft-landed will be called the ‘Shiv Shakti’ point. Here’s a list of the findings made by the rover on the moon: 

Temperature 

On August 27, ISRO released a graph of temperature variation on the moon and a senior scientist BHM Darukesha shared, “We all believed that the temperature could be somewhere around 20 degrees Centigrade to 30 degrees Centigrade on the surface but it is 70 degrees centigrade. This is surprisingly higher than what we had expected.” 

Four-metre diameter crater 

While roaming on the lunar surface, the Pragyan rover faced an obstacle as it came across a four-metre diameter crater. The space agency said that the crater was positioned 3 metres ahead of the rover’s location. 

Elements on moon 

On August 3, the Chandrayaan-3 rover ‘unambiguously confirmed’ the presence of sulphur on the lunar surface near the south pole. Other elements detected included aluminium, calcium, iron, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon, and oxygen.  The search for hydrogen is underway.

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