India's Chandrayaan-3 mission delivered its Vikram lander and Pragyan rover to the lunar surface on August 23rd.
) power plants that last for years. They're also really expensive, whereas the Chandrayaan-3 mission cost only about $75 million.Pragyan has transmitted all of its data from its brief mission and is now hibernating. The temperature on the lunar surface will plummet to -120C , and the spacecraft's electronics were not built to handle that. But the battery is charged, and the receiver is still on.
When it comes to science, the mission's goals were to detect water ice and to characterize the makeup of the lunar regolith. It carries a spectrometer and a spectroscope for that purpose. Its measurements will also contribute to our understanding of lunar impacts and the lunar atmosphere's evolution.
This is the first time the temperature has been taken near the South Pole, and it confirms what other missions have found elsewhere on the Moon. The top layer of the regolith acts as an insulator and doesn't conduct heat very well. The rest of the mission's data will determine the overall outcome of the science objectives, and Indian scientists will get the first crack at the data before it's made available to international scientists.
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