The Indian mission ship recorded an earthquake on the moon

India has become the first country to successfully send a spacecraft and an exploration rover to the south pole of the Moon. Water is proposed to exist in frozen form beneath the surface of the Moon’s south pole, and all major space agencies organize manned and unmanned missions there. Finding frozen water and then successfully recovering and exploiting it will greatly aid the creation of viable manned facilities of any kind on the Moon. The frozen water could produce drinking water, oxygen, and even rocket fuel for lunar residents who would not otherwise rely entirely on supplies from Earth.

The mission plan was for the vehicle to conduct surveys for about two weeks on the lunar surface and then enter “sleep” mode and reactivate if the mission crew deemed it necessary. The mission’s lunar spacecraft also contains data-logging instruments on our physical satellite, including the Lunar Seismic Activity (ILSA) instrument which, as its name suggests, records seismic activity.

As announced by ISRO, the Indian Space Agency (ILSA) detected an earthquake on August 26, the source of which is still under investigation by mission technicians. This announcement is important because it is the first recording of seismic activity on the moon in half a century.

Chandrayaan-3 mission:
Scientific experiments on site

Instrument for the Lunar Seismic Activity (ILSA) payload on the Chandrayaan 3 lander
– The first instrument based on MEMS technology on the Moon –
The movements of the rover and others were recorded… pic.twitter.com/Sjd5K14hPl

– isro (@isro) August 31, 2023

We’ve been monitoring seismic activity on the Moon since NASA’s first manned mission half a century ago placed seismic data recorders on the Moon. Earthquakes of magnitude 5.7 have been recorded on the Moon. Understanding the tectonic activity on the Moon as it is understood becomes even more important when planning to establish bases and colonies there.

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