{"id":172784,"date":"2023-09-25T14:24:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T19:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/chandrayaan-3-detects-unexpected-levels-of-sulfur-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2023-09-25T14:24:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T19:24:54","slug":"chandrayaan-3-detects-unexpected-levels-of-sulfur-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/chandrayaan-3-detects-unexpected-levels-of-sulfur-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan-3 Detects \u2018Unexpected\u2019 Levels of Sulfur on The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rrTtLze5Ydk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In an exciting milestone for <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/indias-chandrayaan-3-landed-on-the-south-pole-of-the-moon-a-space-policy-expert-explains-what-this-means-for-india-and-the-global-race-to-the-moon-212171\">lunar scientists around the globe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/chandrayaan3_gallery.html\">India\u2019s Chandrayaan-3 lander<\/a> touched down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lroc.asu.edu\/posts\/1314\">375 miles (600 km)<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/45M9Mvn\">south pole of the Moon<\/a> on August 23, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In just under 14 Earth days, Chandrayaan-3 provided scientists with valuable new data and further <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jatan.space\/p\/moon-monday-issue-143\">inspiration to explore the Moon<\/a>. And the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/\">Indian Space Research Organization<\/a> has shared these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/Ch3_ScienceResults.html\">initial results<\/a> with the world.<\/p>\n<p>While the data from <a href=\"https:\/\/robotsguide.com\/robots\/pragyan\">Chandrayaan-3\u2019s rover<\/a>, named Pragyan, or \u201cwisdom\u201d in Sanskrit, showed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lpi.usra.edu\/publications\/books\/lunar_sourcebook\/pdf\/Chapter07.pdf\">lunar soil<\/a> contains expected elements such as iron, titanium, aluminum and calcium, it also showed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/LIBSResults.html\">an unexpected surprise \u2013 sulfur<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exciting milestone for lunar scientists around the globe, India\u2019s Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down 375 miles (600 km) from the south pole of the Moon on August 23, 2023. In just under 14 Earth days, Chandrayaan-3 provided scientists with valuable new data and further inspiration to explore the Moon. And the Indian Space Research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}