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07/11/22 21:50 PM IST

ISRO plans to return to Mars, explore dark side of moon with Japan

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  • The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has turned its attention to Venus and is collaborating with Japan to examine the moon’s dark side, following trips to the moon and Mars.
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  • A Japanese rocket will launch an ISRO-built lunar lander and rover into orbit with a planned landing site close to the south pole of the moon.
  • “The rover will then move to the area of the moon that is always in shadow and never receives sunlight.”
  • The examination of the area was fascinating since anything that had persisted in the PSR zone was analogous to something that had been frozen for aeons.
  • The Aditya L-1 will be a special mission in which a payload-carrying 400-kg class satellite will be deployed in an orbit around the Sun so that it may continually view the star from a location known as the Lagrange Point L-1.
  • 5 million kilometres would separate the orbit from Earth, and it would study coronal heating, solar wind acceleration, the beginning of coronal mass ejections, flares, and near-Earth space weather.
  • The Aditya L-1 and Chandrayaan-3 missions would be prioritised, as early as next year, the missions to Venus and the moon with JAXA were expected to follow.
  • The lunar rover on board Chandrayaan-3 needed to be successful because it will be used again on a mission with JAXA.
Source- Indian Express 

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