In a landmark scientific breakthrough, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that its lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-2 has made the first-ever observation of the effects of the Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) from the Sun on the Moon using its onboard scientific instrument. The Bengaluru-headquartered space agency has said that this observation would help understand the lunar exosphere, the thin atmosphere of the Moon, and the impact of space weather on its surface. Launched on 22nd of July in 2019, from Sriharikota using the GSLV-MkIII-M1 rocket, Chandrayaan-2 carried eight experiment payloads. On August 20, 2019, Chandrayaan-2 was successfully inserted into the elliptical orbit around the Moon. Although communication with the Vikram lander was lost during its landing atte

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