CHANDRAYAAN 3 TO ADD 65TB DATA
A day after Chandrayaan-3 lander Vikram
touched down on Moon's south polar region, Isro on Thursday switched on the
payloads on Vikram started moving Pragyan, the rover, on the lunar surface.Once
everything starting working then data from the orbiter.
INDIA’S LUNAR DATA REPOSITORY WILL
GET RICHER INDIA HAS RECEIVED OVER 65 TERABYTES(TB) OF DATA FROM THE ORBITER
About 43TB of data has come from Solar Xay
Monitor (XSM which detects Xrays emitted by Sun and its corona This was developed
by Physical Research Laboratory.
According to the sources,Solary X
ray monitor has done some pathbreaking observations which support findings of
another instrument on orbiter called CLASS (CHANDRAYAAN2 LARGE AREA SOFT XRAY
SPECTROMETER) developed by UR Rao Satelilite Centre,which studys Xrays coming
from the Sun and how tjey get scattered by elements from the lunar surface.
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