Chandrayaan-3 bags credit for first-ever in-situ measurement of Lunar Surface, revealing insights about harbouring water-ice on Moon - Goa Chronicle

Chandrayaan-3 bags credit for first-ever in-situ measurement of Lunar Surface, revealing insights about harbouring water-ice on Moon - Goa Chronicle

Chennai: India’s Chandrayaan-3 ChaSTE payload onboard Vikram Lander has taken the credit for the first-ever in-situ measurement of the temperature of the Moon’s surface, down to a depth of ten centimetres, at the Southern higher latitude. So far, the temperature measurements from the subsurface of the Moon by the Apollo 15 and 17 missions focussed to a larger depth of few meters, but direct measurement of temperatures within the topmost fluffy l…