Chandrayaan-2 Data to Be Released Globally from October 2020: ISRO
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), on Tuesday, said a public release of science data from Chandrayaan-2 for global use will begin in October.
This announcement arrives just a day before July 22, 2020, which marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of India's second moon mission via the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV)-MkIII-M1.
Extensive data has been acquired from Chandrayaan-2 payloads, and parameters are being derived for the presence of water-ice in the polar regions, X-ray based and infrared spectroscopic mineral information, and mid- and high-latitude presence of Argon-40—a condensable gas on the Moon which gets released internally by the radioactive decay—said ISRO.
The report on the major findings from Chandrayaan-2's science experiments was initially planned for release at the Annual Lunar Planetary Science Conference in March. However, it got cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was inserted into lunar orbit on August 20, 2019.
All eight payloads on the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter are performing well. The global mapping of the lunar surface and polar coverage are being carried out as per the mission plan, ISRO said.
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