NEW DELHI August 24. 2024 (Saba) -The Pragyan rover, launched on July 14 last year as part of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission, landed near the lunar south pole on August 23, 2023.
It has now found crucial evidence bolstering the claim about the lunar surface being made up of magma.
The 23 measurements of the rover by the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) experiment showed that the Moon's surface was mainly uniform and primarily composed of ferroan anorthosite (FAN), a type of lunar rock, according to the 'Down To Earth' website.
Earlier sensor data collected by the Apollo, Luna and Chang'e 5 missions, from equatorial to mid-latitude regions, showed that the moon’s 'regolith' in those areas was also uniform and composed of the same material.
The 'regolith' is a layer of rock fragments that covers the exposed surfaces of airless bodies in space, such as the Moon.
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