“Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan Rover Discovers Oxygen and Other Elements on Moon’s South Pole”

Introduction India's lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, has made groundbreaking discoveries on the Moon's surface. The Pragyan rover, part of the mission, has detected several elements near the lunar south pole. While the biggest discovery is that of sulphur in the lunar south polar region, it has also detected the presence of aluminium, calcium, iron, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon, and oxygen. Pragyan Rover Vikram Lander What is Chandrayaan-3? Chandrayaan-3 is India's third lunar mission. It was launched on August 23, 2023, and reached the Moon's surface safely in a textbook style. The mission aims to explore the Moon's south pole region and conduct scientific experiments to study its surface and environment. How was the discovery made? The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) instrument onboard the Pragyan rover was instrumental in these discoveries...