India Shows Off Chandrayaan-3 To The South Pole Of The Moon, Sends Images To Earth Residents!

The Chandrayaan-3 mission has reached the south pole of the moon (photo: dock.isro)

JAKARTA - The Chandrayan-3 mission has reached the south pole of the moon, showing off how the region is to the world through an image.

Pragyan's rover, which is above the mainlander, took a photo of the spacecraft's parent, showing it standing upright in a remote area of the Moon's south pole.

When observed more closely, there are several parts that have been cut off from landers and depend on below. But the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), NASA has confirmed it is one of the instruments that will carry out science missions, and all of them operate normally.

The two instruments displayed in the photo are the Chandra Surface Thermophysical Experiment, which studies the surface thermal properties and the Moon Seismic Activity Instrument, which will make measurements at landing sites to map the crust and mantle.

Meanwhile, the Laser-induced Damage Spectroscopy Instrument will make measurements using a technique that analyzes the soil by evaporating it using intense laser pulses.

The process produces a hot plasma, whose light can then be studied. Instruments will detect other signs for aluminum, calcium, iron, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon, and oxygen.

But the presence of sulfur is the most surprising. Belerang is a chemical element found in the soil, water, and plants on Earth.

Its presence on the Moon suggests it may be trapped in ice water at the Moon's south pole, sulfur detection inferred the presence of ice water.

Therefore, the presence of sulfur and other elements at the Moon's south pole also shows the region is not as friendly as previously thought.

With the appearance of the photo, further evidence is emblazoned about the success of India's mission as the first robotic aircraft to make a spacewalk to the Moon for 239,000 miles, and land safely in a dark and steep region.

India managed to beat countries such as Russia, China and the United States (US) to become the first country to land a spacecraft at the south pole of the moon on August 23, aboard a rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in north of Chennai on July 14.

Science instruments on lander rides and explorers will be active for a total of one day lunar (14 days Earth) before losing power, they will still be left on the Moon, covered in dust and not returned to Earth, as quoted from Mashable and Gizmodo, Friday, September 1.