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[ad_1] India has launched two lunar missions so far, extracting valuable lessons from each expedition and emerging stronger with every endeavor. The first Chandrayaan mission was launched on October 22, 2008. The mission was known for its discovery of water on the moon and later it led to many other discoveries too.The second mission, Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019, The lander made it to the lunar orbit, but was later lost just 2.1 km above the moon's surface. Now, the Chandrayaan- 3 has been built with learnings from past failures and ISRO will be hoping that the space mission is successful. Chandrayaan-3 missionThe Chandrayaan-3 is scheduled to launch from India on July 14, at 2:35 p.m. India standard time. It has a few main objectives with greater emphasis, the first foc...

[ad_1] X-ray spectrometer 'CLASS' on the Chandrayaan-2 has mapped an abundance of sodium on the moon, says ISRO. The X-ray spectrometer 'CLASS' on the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter has mapped an abundance of sodium on the moon for the first time, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (C1XS) detected sodium from its characteristic line in X-rays which opened up the possibility of mapping the amount of sodium on the moon, ISRO said. In a recent work published in 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters', Chandrayaan-2 mapped the abundance of sodium on the Moon for the very first time using CLASS (Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer), the national space agency said in a statement on Friday. "Built at the U R Rao Satellite ...

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In a first, India’s Chandrayaan-2 spectrometer maps abundance of sodium on moon