Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover discovers big crater older than South Pole-Aitken basin

Chandrayaan-3 landing tract improvement by South Pole-Aitken basin and different interaction craters – revealed successful a survey led by @PRLAhmedabad idiosyncratic Dr. S. Vijayan.#shivshaktipointhttps://t.co/y9yORpviM9 pic.twitter.com/A7Ivtl5C9H

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This crater was perchance formed earlier the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, known arsenic the largest and oldest interaction basin connected the moon’s surface. The find was based connected the investigation of information transmitted by the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover, some of which successfully completed their ngo connected September 3, 2023, and were then enactment into slumber mode.

In a insubstantial published by PRL Ahmedabad scientists, named ‘Chandrayaan-3 landing tract improvement by South Pole-Aitken basin and different interaction craters’, it is said that the Chandrayaan-3 ngo landed (CH-3 landing site) wrong a buried interaction crater, which is overmuch older than the SPA basin, which is located astir 350 km from the South Pole-Aitken basin rim.

Using the Pragyan rover’s Navcam and optical high-resolution camera, ISRO has managed to seizure a “semi-circular, heavy degraded operation encompassed astir the landing site”. It is present being called 1 of the oldest structures connected the moon, which was said to person been buried by debris besides known arsenic ejecta materials from the SPA basin and 11 different basins surrounding the same.

Findings from the Chandrayaan-3 ngo person been helping scientists astir the satellite amended recognize the moon. This could assistance upcoming satellite missions, including Chandrayaan-4, planned for 2027.