{"id":486395,"date":"2023-08-30T11:45:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T06:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=486395"},"modified":"2023-08-30T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T06:15:35","slug":"pragyan-rover-finds-sulphur-at-moons-south-pole-search-for-hydrogen-isro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/science\/pragyan-rover-finds-sulphur-at-moons-south-pole-search-for-hydrogen-isro\/","title":{"rendered":"Pragyan rover finds sulphur at Moon\u2019s south pole, search for hydrogen: ISRO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the south pole of the Moon on August 23, the Indian Space Research Organisation on Tuesday said that the Pragyan rover of the Chandrayaan-3 mission has unambiguously confirmed the presence of sulphur on the lunar surface near the south pole, through first-ever in-situ measurements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) instrument onboard the Pragyan rover also detected aluminium, calcium, iron, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon and oxygen, as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBS is a scientific technique that analyses the composition of materials by exposing them to intense laser pulses, according to ISRO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISRO took to X, formerly Twitter and said, In-situ scientific experiments continue. Through first-ever in-situ measurements, the Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) instrument onboard the Rover unambiguously confirms the presence of sulphur (S) on the lunar surface near the south pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chandrayaan-3 Mission:<br><br>In-situ scientific experiments continue &#8230;..<br><br>Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) instrument onboard the Rover unambiguously confirms the presence of Sulphur (S) in the lunar surface near the south pole, through first-ever in-situ measurements.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vDQmByWcSL\">pic.twitter.com\/vDQmByWcSL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ISRO (@isro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/isro\/status\/1696529346872451541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ISRO also said that the hunt for hydrogen in the Moon&#8217;s south pole is underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBS is a scientific technique that measures the composition of minerals by exposing them to an intense laser pulse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISRO also shared a graph of the observation on X, illustrating the temperature variation of the lunar surface at various depths, as recorded during the probe\u2019s penetration. These new revelations came days after Chandrayaan-3 profiled the soil temperature at the south pole of the Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the graph, the temperature of the lunar surface decreases as the depth increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pragyan rover and Vikram lander, powered by solar energy, are performing scientific experiments and the mission is expected to continue for seven more days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rover has travelled about eight meters since it was deployed from the lander and is expected to continue exploring the Shiv Shakti landing area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigating the chemical composition of lunar dust and gravel is one of the primary objectives of the rover. This research is helping us comprehend the moon&#8217;s geology and atmosphere, thereby advancing our understanding of Earth&#8217;s planetary neighbour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Space Research Organisation on Tuesday said that the Pragyan rover of the Chandrayaan-3 mission has unambiguously confirmed the presence of sulphur on the lunar surface near the south pole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":486405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6475,125714],"tags":[160319,160320,160321],"yst_prominent_words":[28955,64519,75685],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/08\/30114351\/Rover-finds-sulphur.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486395"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=486395"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=486395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->