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Chandrayaan-2 gauges sodium content on Moon’s surface
The Hindu | 09/10/2022 07:16 PM | Click to read full article
Scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have mapped out the global distribution of sodium on the Moon’s surface.
They used the CLASS instrument (Chandrayaan-2 large area soft X-ray spectrometer) carried by the second Indian Moon mission, Chandrayaan-2. This is the first effort to provide a global-scale measurement of sodium on the lunar surface using X-ray fluorescent spectra.
