Chandrayaan Radar Peers Into Dark Lunar Crater

Credit: ISRO/NASA/JHUAPL/LPI/CORNELL UNIVERSITY/SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
A prototype lightweight synthetic aperture radar supplied by NASA has generated its first data from the bottom of a permanently dark crater at one of the Moon’s poles. The Mini-SAR rode India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter to test its ability to search for water ice and other volatiles that might...

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