India just rewrote the rules of space science. In a landmark scientific breakthrough that has stunned the global space community, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that its lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-2 has made the first-ever observation of the effects of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) from the Sun on the Moon's exosphere, a feat no other space agency in the world has accomplished.

What Are Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)?

Coronal Mass Ejections are huge bursts of solar wind and magnetic fields released from the Sun’s corona. They can send billions of tons of charged particles hurtling through space.

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ISRO's CHACE-2

The groundbreaking observation was made using the Chandra Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2) instrument onboa

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