Potential presence of primitive lunar mantle materials on Chandrayaan-3 landing site: Study

Potential presence of primitive lunar mantle materials on Chandrayaan-3 landing site: Study

SPA basin is one of the Moon’s largest and oldest impact features in the solar system. The Chandrayaan-3 landing site is located 350kms from the basin.

Chandrayaan-3 makes big discovery on Moon's Shiv Shakti Point

The findings reinforce the Shiv Shakti Point’s value as a site for sampling primitive mantle materials.

As early as the 1960s, researchers established the theory that solar winds contribute to the formation of water on the moon.The Nasa was now able to prove this with an experiment.read more on t3n.de

Chandrayaan-3 Makes Historic Discovery at Lunar South Pole

In a groundbreaking discovery that reshapes our understanding of the Moon’s internal structure, India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has identified traces of ancient lunar mantle material at the Shiv Shakti Point near the Moon’s south pole. The revelation comes from data captured by the Pragyan rover’s Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS), which has recorded an unexpected geochemical profile: strikingly low levels of sodium and potassium, coupled w…