A senior official at the Bangalore-based headquarters of the National Space Agency under the Department of Space told ‘PTI-Bhasha’ on Thursday, “The Chandrayaan-3 mission is scheduled in the second week of July. ” Its purpose is to demonstrate the ability to safely land on the lunar surface and collect samples by the rover. According to ISRO officials, while the scope of these scientific instruments on the lander and rover will be in line with the ‘theme’ of ‘science of the moon’, another experimental instrument will study the ‘spectro-polarimetric signature’ of Earth from the lunar orbit, Which will be according to the theme ‘Science from the Moon’.
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