Bengaluru, Dec 9 (PTI) The electrical environment near the Moon’s surface in the south polar region is far more active than previously understood, ISRO said on Tuesday, based on an analysis of Chandrayaan-3 lander data.

The Chandrayaan-3 data, obtained between August 23 and September 3, 2023, provided critical ground truth on the Moon’s plasma environment.

In a statement, ISRO said: "Analysis of the Chandrayaan-3 lander data has yielded significant and first-of-its-kind results on the plasma environment near the Moon’s surface at southern higher latitudes, revealing that the electrical environment near the Moon's surface in the south polar region is far more active than previously understood." In physics, plasma is often called the fourth state of matter, consisting of a mixture of charg

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