: Chandrayaan maps sodium presence on moon surface for first time #IndiaNEWS The Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter has for the first time mapped the level of presence of the element sodium on the moon’s surface,

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Chandrayaan maps sodium presence on moon surface for first time #IndiaNEWS
The Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter has for the first time mapped the level of presence of the element sodium on the moon’s surface, the Indian Space Research Organisation said on Friday.The findings of the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer, or CLASS, could be helpful in figuring out the amount of sodium present on the moon’s surface, the space research body said. The findings of the spectrometer were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters in the last week of September.What is the significance of sodium on moon?The ISRO on Friday said that the rock and soil samples brought by Neil Armstrong and two other astronauts on the Apollo-11 mission in 1969 showed that the moon surface has remnants of an ancient lunar crust, mainly composed of silicate, or rock-forming minerals.Such minerals are common on earth but the samples from the moon contained more calcium than sodium, which marked a “general trend in compositional differences between earth and moon???, according to ISRO.Establishing the fact that there has been a loss of sodium and potassium from the moon’s surface could be helpful in tracing back to the time “when earth and moon formed together in a solar system that was young and fiery,??? the ISRO said in its press release on Friday.What has Chandrayaan found about sodium on moon?The CLASS...Read more

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