Chandrayaan-2 payloads collected extensive data to derive parameters for presence of water-ice in polar regions: ISRO
Reportedly marking one year of the completion of the launch of India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 by GSLV MkIII M1 on July 22, the indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) On wednesday said that all its eight payloads are performing well.ISRO said that Chandrayaan-2 is carrying out the global mapping of the lunar surdata-face and polar coverage as per the mission plan.
It said that they will release science data captured by Chandrayaan-2 to the public for global use in october, wherein details will be provided to access the data. isro said that Chandrayaan-2 payloads had collected extensive data and the scientists are working to derive the parameters for the presence of water-ice in the polar regions, for finding out X ray-based and Infrared spectroscopic mineral information, and presence of Argon, a condensable gas on the planet moon which gets released internally by radioactive decay of 40 K.India launched Chandrayaan-2 on-board its powerful rocket GSLV-Mk III-M1 from the spaceport of Sriharikota in andhra pradesh on July 22, 2019, with the aim of landing a rover in the unexplored lunar south pole.
Chandrayaan-2 was inserted into lunar orbit on august 20, 2019, and it was the first India's mission to land on the lunar surdata-face. Even isro had planned to land on the south Pole of the lunar surdata-face. isro launched vikram on the moon in september last year and its orbiter is still in the lunar orbit, which has a mission life of seven years.