Chandrayaan-3 news: The space agency said that the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS), another instrument onboard the spacecraft’s Pragyan rover, has confirmed the presence of Sulphur on the lunar South Pole.
ISRO released preliminary data from instruments called RAMBHA and ILSA, both installed on the lander module, and another called APXS which is on the rover. It had earlier released data from instruments called ChaSTE and LIBS.
On August 26, three days after the landing, the ISRO chairman had indicated during a visit to ISRO by PM Narendra Modi, that there were some issues with the data processing and time lag in data transfer from the Rover to the Lander and the Lander to the Earth that were delaying pictures.
ChaSTE is meant to study the heat conductivity of the Moon’s surface and measure the differences in temperatures at different points on and below the surface, with the overall objective of creating a thermal profile of the Moon.