INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
(ChaSTE), were turned on.The space agency had, on Sunday, activated the Spectro-polarimetry of HAbitable Planet Earth (SHAPE) payload on the
check the inclination, terrain condition and temperatures, and wait for the lunar dust to settle
India now has 15 scientific instruments studying a variety of things on Moon and, from there, Sun and Earth
Of these, eight are on Chandrayaan-2 orbiter circling Moon since 2019
India has received over 65 terabytes (TB) of data from the orbiter (1TB is equivalent to 500 hours of movies).Most of this data, about 60TB,
has come from four major instruments developed by Space Applications Centre (SAC): Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC), Imaging InfraRed
Spectrometer (IIRS), Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) and Dual Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (DFSAR)
joins the Elite Space ClubAbout 4.5TB of data has come from Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM), which detects X-rays emitted by Sun and its corona
This was developed by Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad
orbiter called CLASS (Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer) developed by UR Rao Satellite Centre, which studies the X-rays
