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#Chandrayaan2 | @isro’s Chandrayaan 2 identifies craters that may have water after mapping 4 million square kilometres of the Moon in its first year

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By @pabsgill

🛰️It’s been a year since #Chandrayaan2 has been in orbit around the Moon.

In that time, the eight instruments it has onboard have been scouting the lunar surface for craters that could hold water and landing sites for future missions.

🛰️#Chandrayaan2’s Terrain Mapping Camera took photos of nearly 4 million square kilometres of the Moon’s surface.

The Terrain Mapping Camera - 2 (TMC -2) completed 220 orbits of the Moon and took images of nearly 4 million square kilometres of its surface.

🛰️​#ISRO’s Orbiter High-Resolution Camera scouts future landing sites for Moon missions.

In its time around the Moon, the Orbiter High-Resolution Camera (OHRC) took 22 photos covering 1056 square kilometres.

➡️​#Chandrayaan2’s DFSAR finds lunar craters that may contain water

According to ISRO, secondary craters within the larger Peary crater have the right values to ‘ideal candidates for bearing water-ice’.

➡️​OHRC took pictures of where Vikram crashed onboard the #Chandrayaan2 orbiter

Chandrayaan-2’s lander, Vikram, crash-landed on the Moon after detaching from the orbiter.

➡️​#Chandrayaan2’s CLASS finds aluminium and calcium on the far side of the Moon

Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS) was watching closely when the second-largest solar flare of the year occurred on May 29.

➡️TMC-2 captures hard to detect lunar lobate scarp that may have formed 1.1 billion years ago

The image indicates that the length of the scarp is 1416 metres. The average relief variation across the scarp is 24 metres.

According to ISRO, This lobate scarp could have been formed in the Copernican period, 1.1 billion years ago.