Chandrayaan-3 mission: How this amazing find by Pragyan Rover can benefit future ISRO missions

 The Chandrayaan-3 mission gave us some intriguing findings and one of them was the presence of sulphur in lunar soil. Know how it can benefit science and future space exploration projects by ISRO.

Chandrayaan-3 mission made a successful landing on the lunar surface on August 23 which stunned the whole world.

The Vikram lander and Pragyan rover studied the lunar surface for 14 days and gave us some shocking findings which included finding the presence of sulphur and other elements.

According to a Space.com report, the presence of sulphur was expected, however, in a very low concentration. But its presence on soil marks a huge surprise as there can be higher sulfur concentration.

Pragyan Rover used an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer and a laser-induced breakdown spectrometer to determine the elemental composition of the soil.

These two instruments enabled the Pragyan rover to make the discovery by studying the lunar soil.

These interesting findings of sulphur in soils near the moon's poles may one day allow astronauts to live off the ground.

Furthermore, the presence of sulphur in the Moon’s south pole also indicates volcanic activities.

Now, from the Chandrayaan-3 mission, scientists will be able to find out the calibrated data of Sulphur which will help them to know exactly how much sulphur is present in soil.

In addition, higher sulfur concentrations might be the result of different environmental conditions at the South Pole and in higher regions.

There is also the possibility that sulfur at the poles came from ancient volcanic eruptions on the lunar surface, or from meteorites that included sulfur.