New Delhi: ISRO is hosting an interactive platform to explore the data captured by the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter, with advanced data products focusing on the polar regions of the Moon. All the major spacefaring nations are headed to the south pole of the Moon , because of the water ice in the permanently shadowed craters. These regions are expected to have preserved the prevalent chemical conditions in the infancy of the Solar System. The ready-to-use data products allow for characterizations of the polar regions of the Moon, and will benefit the efforts of all nations in exploring the lunar surface.

Radar polarimetric decomposition maps of the Lunar North (left) and South (right) poles. (Image Credit: ISRO).

The products also complement hyperspectral data in mapping the distribution of m

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