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Subsurface Ice Detected in Permanently Shadowed Lunar Craters Spurs Moon-Base Prospects

ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 radar data reveal signatures consistent with buried subsurface ice beneath the floors of four doubly-shadowed craters in the Moon’s south polar region, including a 1.1‑km Faustini inner crater with a lobate rim that hints at an ice-rich impact. The ice lies in permanently dark, ultra-cold craters, preserved for billions of years, and could provide water and fuel for future human missions, making these regions highly strategic for lunar exploration and resource utilization.

via The Times of India|

#chandrayaan-2 #ice #moon

space3 months ago•2 min saved

Two Teams Clash Over Locating Luna 9, the Lost Soviet Moon Lander

Two research teams claim to have located the long-lost Soviet Luna 9 lunar lander—one via crowdsourced landscape matching to NASA’s LRO data, the other with a YOLO-ETA machine-learning search trained on Apollo sites. With Luna 9’s precise resting place still unknown after its 1966 landing, the dispute will hinge on higher-resolution images from India’s Chandrayaan-2 over the sites in March, potentially confirming—or debunking—each claim.

via Jalopnik|

#chandrayaan-2 #crowdsourced-search #luna-9

science3 months ago•34 min saved

Crowdsourced Hunt for Tiny Luna 9 Moon Lander Heats Up

Two research groups claim to have traced traces of Luna 9, the Soviet probe that achieved the Moon’s first soft landing in 1966, but they disagree on its exact resting spot due to the lander’s tiny size. India’s Chandrayaan-2 is set to image the area in March with higher resolution to settle the debate, following crowd-sourced horizon analysis and an AI-driven search that proposed different candidate sites near the lander’s shells. If confirmed, Luna 9 (and its twin Luna 13) would finally have a known resting place after decades of mystery.

via Yahoo|

#chandrayaan-2 #crowdsourcing #luna-9

space1 year ago•2 min saved

India's Moon Orbiter Maneuvers to Avoid Collision with Korean and NASA Crafts

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has maneuvered its Chandrayaan-2 moon orbiter twice to avoid potential collisions with Korea's Danuri spacecraft and NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. These maneuvers, conducted on September 19 and October 1, were necessary due to the spacecrafts' polar orbits around the Moon. The lack of formal protocols for such situations requires collaboration between space agencies like ISRO, NASA, and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). Collision avoidance maneuvers consume fuel and can disrupt missions, leading to potential disagreements over responsibility.

via The Register|

#chandrayaan-2 #collision-avoidance #isro

space2 years ago•4 min saved

"Chandrayaan-2's Solar Flare Catalog Reveals Sun's Explosive Activity"

India's Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter has detected 1,400 slow-rising solar flares over three years, significantly increasing the slow-flare catalog. These mysterious flares, which are hotter than traditional solar flares, challenge the standard understanding of solar activity and may hold the key to solving the long-standing mystery of why the sun's corona is hotter than its surface. The research, published in Solar Physics, suggests that these slow-rising flares warrant further investigation to better understand their generation and impact on space weather.

via Space.com|

#astrophysics #chandrayaan-2 #solar-flares