Hunting for Hydrogen by Sukarma Thareja & Celia Berrell
Chandrayaan-three,
August twenty-three
in the year of
twenty-twenty-three
sent news to the world
from the lunar cold,
successfully landing
at Moon’s South Pole.Vikram’s the lander
and Pragyan’s its rover,
fitted with lasers
and chemical sensors.
With fourteen day’s work
then fourteen day’s sleep …
these robots might dream
of electric sheep!Dr Sukarma Thareja says: With its Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) and Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS), Pragyan has found elements of Aluminium, Calcium, Chromium, Iron, Manganese, Oxygen, Silicon, Sulphur and Titanium. Underway is also a search for the lightest element Hydrogen.
Find out more about this Indian Space Research Organisation (ISR0) mission HERE
