New Delhi. After Chandrayaan-3 on Sunday sent its first findings on the surface temperature of the Moon’s south pole, scientists said that the temperature near the surface was not expected to be 70 degrees Celsius.
The surface on which Chandrayaan 3 landed and is carrying out its experiments, the temperature was estimated to be between 20 degree centigrade to 30 degree. We all believed that the temperature on the surface could be around 20 degree centigrade to 30 degree centigrade, but it is 70 degree centigrade.
ISRO scientist BH Darukesha said, ‘It is surprisingly more than our expectation. On Earth, there is hardly any such variation and hence the first findings of Chandrayaan 3 are very interesting.
“When we go two to three centimeters inside the Earth, we hardly see two to three degree centigrade variation, whereas there (in the Moon) it is about 50 degree centigrade variation,” he said. This is something interesting.
The variation in temperature on the Moon’s surface around the south pole ranges from minus 70 °C to minus 10 °C. This is the first time that the scientific fraternity of the world got information courtesy of ISRO’s Chandrayaan 3.
