Sapna Ranka
Mumbai: The recently called off mission Chandrayaan-1, has last but not the least enabled scientists to study the interaction between the solar wind and a planetary body like moon without a magnetic field.
ISRO stated that the 11 payloads help meet their mission of studying the moon from various perspectives. The results are currently being reviewed by a peer committee.
The payload in question is a joint one of Sweden and India — Sub KeV Atom Reflecting Analyser (SARA) which covered the entire lunar surface several times.
Scientists from ISRO, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA, and European Space Agency (ESA) had a meeting for 2 days and reviewed the data sets obtained from the 11 payloads (scientificinstruments) on board the lunar craft.
Among those, four instruments — Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC), Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), Hyperspectral Imager (HySI) and Smart near Infrared Spectrometer (SIR-2) — have provided extensive data on moon’s topography, mineralogy and chemistry.
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