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S Somanath
Chairman, ISRO
Dil Maange More
It is a very well understood information. Like, Sulphur is only
lesson in the Space fraternity an indication of an element
that if you do not have the which we never expected to be
courage to take the risk, you are there in this large quantity. We
not going to achieve anything. discovered so much in terms
We understand that there of distribution of elements at
could be either failures and multiple locations. Another
disappointments or success payload ChaSTE gave us
and glory, but we still need to very different findings of the
keep doing our work. The failure temperature distribution. We
in landing softly the last time found that there is a very drastic
gave us enough data to analyse change in the temperatures
and understand the weaknesses from top to just 10 cm below
in the system. We understood itself. We also looked at the ionic
the gaps and worked to extend presence there and found it to be
our efforts towards creating much lesser than we expected.
more simulation, creating The seismic activities were very
the boundary operations and interesting, we found that there
covering all the possibilities we are activities happening inside
could dream about. So, we were the core of the Moon. All of this
really confident this time. needs to be exactly measured
The payloads onboard and studied over a period of time
had assigned tasks. After the to make sure there are no errors.
landing, the Rover had two So, when we actually tell the
important instruments related to world about our findings that are
Moon mineralogy to identify the extraordinary and momentous,
elemental composition—Alpha we are seen with great respect.
Particle X-ray Spectrometer Now after completing all the
(APXS) and Laser Induced goals of the primary mission, we
Breakdown Spectroscopy want more—our Dil Maange More.
(LIBS). We have gained a lot of I have told my team to conceive
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