Explainer: What India can expect from Chandrayaan 3

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Explainer: What India can expect from Chandrayaan 3

Chandrayaan 3 will attempt to land on the surface of ‘Chanda Mama’ on Wednesday evening.

New Delhi:
A few hours from now, Indian space agency ISRO’s Chandrayaan 3 lander will attempt to land on the surface of Vikram ‘Chanda Mama’, and in case of success, India will become the first country in the world to land on Earth. Moon’s South Pole. will come down

10 special things related to Chandrayaan 3…

  1. Chandrayaan 3 is likely to land on the moon at 6:04 pm on Wednesday, making India the fourth country to make a soft landing on the lunar surface.

  2. Chandrayaan 3 will aim to be the first to land on the moon’s south pole after Russia’s Luna 25 spacecraft crashed on the moon on Sunday. The moon’s south pole — away from the equatorial region targeted by previous missions, including the Apollo landings — is riddled with craters and deep trenches.

  3. The South Pole of the Moon is very important, as it is believed that this region contains water ice, which could help human habitation on the Moon in the future.

  4. If successful, the Chandrayaan 3 mission could give a major boost to India’s space industry. This will not only strengthen India’s credibility as a space power, but will also have implications for future lunar missions.

  5. The Chandrayaan 3 mission will also demonstrate new technology for inter-planetary missions.

  6. Chandrayaan 3’s lander Vikram is carrying a rover named ‘Pragyan’, which will analyze the chemical composition of the lunar surface and search for water.

  7. ‘Pragyan’ will use its laser beam to melt a portion of the moon’s surface, called ‘regolith’, and analyze the gases emitted in the process.

  8. Through this mission, India will not only get a lot of information about the lunar surface, but also assess its potential for future human habitation.

  9. Another payload – Radio Anatomy of Moon Bound Hypersensitive Ionosphere and Atmosphere (RAMBHA) – will measure the density of charged particles near the lunar surface and examine how this changes over time.

  10. The Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) will measure the chemical composition and estimate the mineral composition of the lunar surface, while the Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) will determine the elemental composition of the lunar soil.

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