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India’s Moon mission: four things Chandrayaan-3 has taught scientists

In just two weeks, the Indian mission has made some surprising discoveries about the composition of the Moon
  1. T.V. Padma
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The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Moon lander Vikram and robotic rover Pragyan have now been told to go to sleep. ISRO hopes to awaken them at lunar dawn on 22 September.

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Nature 621, 456 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02852-7

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  • Clarification 16 October 2023: An earlier version of this story compared density of electrons in the atmospheres of the Earth and Moon per cubic metre and per cubic centimetre, respectively. We have adjusted the units for easier comparison.

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