Chandrayaan-3 takes seismic readings from lunar surface

India’s lunar exploration mission, Chandrayaan-3, took its first seismic readings on the moon, detecting the mild rumble of not just the rover and other scientific instruments probing the surface of the moon but also what appeared to be a “natural event” now under investigation

- Soumya Pillai

Now in its eighth day of its 14-day mission where it will study, for the first time for any country, the region near the south pole, the Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander and Pragyan rover also conducted the conducting the first in-situ measurements of the surface-bound lunar plasma environment, and confirmed the presence of sulphur (S) in the region via another technique, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said on Thursday.