The Indian Space Research Organisation on Friday threw open its scientific data gathered from the Chandrayaan-3 mission for researchers across the world for analyses to mark the first anniversary of India landing a spacecraft on the Moon. The space agency has granted access to over 55 gigabytes of data from the five payloads – three …
The Pragyan rover, launched as part of India’s Chandrayaan 3 mission on July 14 last year, touched down near the lunar south pole on August 23, 2023. It has now found crucial evidence bolstering the claim about the lunar surface being made up of magma. Pragyan’s landing site on the moon has been named Point …
Data from India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission suggests that the Moon’s surface may have once been covered by a vast ocean of molten magma. The findings, recently published in the journal Nature, lend credence to the long-standing lunar magma ocean hypothesis, a theory that posits the Moon’s early surface was a sea of liquid rock. The analysis …
Vikram Lander (Photo: Twitter/@isro) 3 min read Last Updated : Aug 22 2024 | 6:11 PM IST It’s been a year since India launched the historic moon mission, Chandrayaan-3, to the southern pole of the moon, making the country the first to land a rover in the region. The Chandrayaan-3 has been sharing …
Bengaluru: A sea of hot, molten rock or magma once existed under the lunar surface, findings of Chandrayaan-3 have revealed, and its analysis of matter deep below the Moon has opened up new avenues for studying the surface while even potentially identifying safe landing spots. The data has backed up the Lunar Magma Ocean theory, …
A long night awaited the Pragyan rover on the moon as it bid farewell to operators at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) one last time. The subzero temperatures proved too low for the suitcase-sized rover. Fourteen days after landing on the moon as part of India’s historic Chandrayaan-3 mission, the rover went to sleep …
July 14 marks the one-year anniversary of India’s groundbreaking Chandrayaan-3 mission launch, a milestone that catapulted the nation into an elite group of countries capable of soft-landing on the Moon. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched the mission on July 14, 2023, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, setting the stage …
Lunar swirls, the enigmatic light-coloured, sinuous features on the Moon’s surface, have long puzzled scientists. Visible even from backyard telescopes, these swirls extend for hundreds of kilometers and resemble abstract brushstrokes. Recent research, however, has begun to unravel the mystery behind these fascinating formations. Nasa images reveal that lunar swirls are not just artistic flourishes …
Scientists have made significant strides in understanding the Moon’s impact history, shedding light on the early solar system’s evolution and the formation of terrestrial planets. Recent research has revealed crucial insights into lunar crater chronology and impact flux, with implications for our understanding of Earth’s own geological past. The study of lunar impact flux relies …
In a significant discovery by ISRO’s Chandrayaan 3 rover Pragyan on the Moon’s South pole, small rock fragments which were scattered around the wall slopes, floor and rim of a small crater have been found in the southern region of the Moon. According to the data analysis of the Pragyan rover, which landed on the …