You may wonder that based on their limited observation, in the early days, people thought the Sun had an atmosphere, like Earth, experiencing seasons and even forming clouds. These clouds were thought to be responsible for the dark spots observed on the Sun’s surface (now the same is known the sunspot, a dark spot appears on the sun’s surface due to low temperature region).
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Chandrayaan-3 Offers Groundbreaking Findings on Water Ice Retention on the Moon
ChaSTE measurements have indicated that there is an impact of local topography on the temperature. The lunar surface temperatures show a significant spatial variability at metre scales at high latitudes, unlike at the equatorial regions, indicating towards the possible presence of widespread water-ice within the shallow subsurface of , even at high latitudes.
The Moon’s Magnetic Mystery: Chandrayaan-2 Just Changed Everything We Knew
A new study based on radio signal analysis of the Chandrayaan-2 (CH-2) orbiter, has yielded surprising information regarding the Moon’s ionosphere. The study reveals that the moon’s ionosphere exhibits unexpectedly high electron densities when it enters the Earth’s geomagnetic tail, which could be explained only by the presence of a lunar crustal magnetic field.
NISAR Satellite: A Joint Venture of NASA and ISRO for Earth Observation
With many claims by climate scientists of rapid changes in Earth’s ecosystem, there is now a need to accurately monitor Earth’s land, sea levels and ice surfaces with minute details to predict the future of Earth and our destiny on earth. To do this, NASA and ISRO have come together to develop a satellite called NISAR that can provide minute changes on the Earth’s surface.