Chandrayaan-3 Takes Lunar South Pole Temperature Written 29 August 2023
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Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3, the word for “moon craft” in Sanskrit, descends toward the lunar surface. | Credit: ISRO; YouTube; framegrab
SPACE reports India’s Chandrayaan-3 has been hard at work since its landmark landing on the lunar South Pole last week. On Sunday, ISRO posted an update on social media “regarding one of Chandrayaan-3’s payloads called the ChaSTE experiment, or Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment.” The purpose of this experiment “is to use a temperature probe as well as 10 individual temperature sensors to measure temperature profiles of lunar south pole soil.” ISRO says the goal “is for ChaSTE to help scientists understand what the thermal behavior of the moon’s surface is like.”
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