The interesting evidence came from the Pragyan spacecraft of the Indian mission, which for about 10 days made 23 measurements while rolling along a 103-meter long area of the moon’s surface, located 50 meters from the landing site. Chandrayaan-3 land).
Indian spacecraft data represent the first measurements of elements within the lunar soil, near the South Pole region.
In its recent findings, published in the scientific journal Nature last Friday, the Pragyan spacecraft found a roughly identical composition consisting mostly of a rock known as iron. anorthosite, which resembles samples taken from the lunar equatorial region during the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.
The authors of the study pointed out that the presence of similar rocks in different parts of the moon further supports the hypothesis, which has existed for decades, that the moon was once covered by an ancient sea of magma.
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