A week after Isro’s historic Moon Mission, Chandrayaan 3 has already made some significant progress in its work and has confirmed the presence of sulphur, aluminium, calcium, iron, chromium, titanium, manganese, oxygen and silicon on the lunar surface near the south pole. Isro has released a chart showing the presence of these elements at various ranges corresponding to the wavelength.
Chandrayaan 3 soft-landed on the south pole of the moon on August 23. Since then, it has been conducting scientific experiments — first of its kind — as no other country ever soft-landed on the south pole of the moon. The South Pole is less illuminated by the sun and might have the potential to be colonised by humans, Isro chief S Somnath earlier said explaining why the South Pole has been picked.
List of elements Chandrayaan 3 found on the moon: Aluminum (Al), sulphur (S), calcium (Ca), iron (Fe), chromium (Cr), titanium (Ti), manganese (Mn), silicon (Si), and oxygen (O). The findings are significant because if Chandrayaan 3 finds the hydrogen that it is searching for, then it will be a step further in the search for water on the moon
Chandrayaan 3 has confirmed the presence of several elements including oxygen in the South Pole of the moon.
4-meter diameter crater: As Pragyan rover has been moving on the lunar surface to carry out the experiments, it came across a 4-metre diameter crater which was 3 metre ahead of its location. Pragyan was redirected to a new path. The South Pole of the moon is full of such craters.
