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Swarajya Staff
July 02, 2024, 2:53 PM | Updated at 14:53 IST
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India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar project recently had a remarkable encounter on the lunar surface, near its landing site.
The Pragyan rover, operated via the Vikram lander, discovered small fragments of rock scattered around the rim, the slopes of the walls and the back of the small craters at the landing site at the high southern latitude.
The findings may particularly advance lunar exploration, confirming previous studies suggesting a slow increase in rock fragments in lunar regolith, according to a report via NDTV.
The 27-kilogram Pragyan rover, carried under the Vikram lander, was equipped with cameras and tools to analyze the lunar soil. He also proudly displayed the ISRO logo and the Indian tricolor flag on the lunar surface.
As the rover sailed about 39 meters west of the landing site, named Shiv Shakti Point by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the number and length of rock fragments increased. The likely source of these rock fragments is a crater only about 10 meters in diameter.
Presented earlier this year at the International Conference on Planets, Exoplanets and Habitability in Ahmedabad, the paper proposed that this crater excavated and redistributed the rock fragments to the west of the landing site.
These fragments were buried several times through the overturning mechanism of the lunar regolith and exposed through the small craters found by the Pragyan rover. Two of the rock fragments showed symptoms of degradation, indicating that they had been exposed to weather conditions in space.
Recently, ISRO leader S Somanath said that with the upcoming lunar mission, Chandrayaan-4, the company aims to recover a lunar pattern from the “Shiv Shakti” point.
India made history on August 23, 2023 with the Chandrayaan-3 mission, becoming the first country to land near the lunar south pole and the fourth to achieve a comfortable landing on the lunar surface, after the United States, the former Soviet Union, and China.
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