{"id":11318,"date":"2025-03-11T02:08:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11318"},"modified":"2025-03-30T01:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T20:22:49","slug":"chandrayaan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chandrayaan-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Chandrayaan-3 Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>New findings based on data from India\u2019s Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest that water ice on the Moon may be present beyond its polar regions.<\/p>\n<h2>About Chandrayaan-3<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Chandrayaan-3 is the <strong>Indian Space Research Organisation&#8217;s (ISRO) <\/strong>second attempt, after Chandrayaan-2, to achieve a successful landing and rover operation on the Moon&#8217;s surface.<\/li>\n<li>Chandrayaan-3 was launched using ISRO&#8217;s <strong>LVM3 rocket<\/strong>, designed to place modules into the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) at a lower cost.\n<ul>\n<li>LVM3 is a <strong>three-stage rocket <\/strong>with two solid strap-on boosters and a core liquid stage.<\/li>\n<li>The LVM3 M4 launcher positioned the integrated modules in an elliptical parking orbit of approximately 170 x 36,500 km.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectives<\/strong>: The mission aims to explore the presence of water ice, which could support future lunar habitation and provide fuel for interplanetary missions. Key goals include:\n<ul>\n<li>Achieving a safe and soft landing on the Moon.<\/li>\n<li>Conducting rover-based exploration of the lunar surface.<\/li>\n<li>Performing in-situ scientific experiments through the rover.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mission Components:<\/strong> Chandrayaan-3 consists of a <strong>Lander Module (LM), a Propulsion Module (PM)<\/strong>, and a Rover designed to develop and demonstrate interplanetary mission technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Chandrayaan-3 Recent Findings<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>New data from Chandrayaan-3 indicates possible water-ice deposits beyond the Moon&#8217;s polar regions.<\/li>\n<li>A study by the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, using data from Chandra\u2019s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) instrument, supports this finding.<\/li>\n<li>ChaSTE measured a 60\u00b0C temperature difference between the lunar surface and 10 cm below it, revealing that the Moon\u2019s surface layer is highly non-conductive, providing insights into its composition and thermal properties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Chandrayaan-3 FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1. <\/strong>Is Chandrayaan-3 still working?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans. <\/strong>Chandrayaan-3&#8217;s lander and rover completed their mission after one lunar day; the propulsion module remains in Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2. <\/strong>When was Chandrayaan-3 landed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans. <\/strong>Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the Moon&#8217;s South Pole on August 23, 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3. <\/strong>Is Chandrayaan-3 a success or failure?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans. <\/strong>Chandrayaan-3 was a success, achieving a soft landing on the Moon&#8217;s South Pole and completing its scientific objectives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q4. <\/strong>What is the difference between Chandrayaan 2 and Chandrayaan-3?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans. <\/strong>Chandrayaan-3 lacks an orbiter, unlike Chandrayaan-2, and focuses on soft landing with improved lander and rover capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/life\/science-chandrayaan-3-data-hints-at-hidden-water-ice-beyond-moons-polar-regions-3773873\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}