Chandrayaan-2: ISRO Releases Pictures of Impact Craters on Moon
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released fresh pictures of impact craters on the moon surface taken by its Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter.
According to ISRO, the Moon has been continuously bombarded by meteorites, asteroids, and comets since its formation.
#ISRO#Chandrayaan2’s DF-SAR is designed to produce greater details about the morphology and ejecta materials of impact craters on the lunar surface. Have a look of initial images and observations made by DF-SAR
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The study of the nature, size, distribution, and composition of impact craters and associated ejecta features reveal valuable information about the origin and evolution of craters.
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According to ISRO, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a powerful remote sensing instrument for studying planetary surfaces and subsurface due to the ability of the radar signal to penetrate the surface.
The above picture is one of them- δ decomposition images from the first datasets acquired over lunar south polar regions in L-band high-resolution (2mslant-range resolution) hybrid polarimetric mode.
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The yellowish tone around crater rims in the image shows ejecta fields.
The above picture shows an L-band fully-polarimetric, 20m slant-range resolution image of the Pitiscus-T crater.
For more detailed information on ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 Latest images visit the ISRO website.
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